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Comment by jules posted on Meet the Ricoh/Pentax D400! at 09/10/2013 - 08:51
I agree with the USB thing a it's my preference and near instantaneous! I suppose Mac users could complain there is no thunderbolt port or whatever they call it now? I think the card option for wifi is nice but as you say, your stuck with just that card and it takes up a slot, maybe an extra slot in the grip would have been good there? You'd need more power if your using wifi it's bound to suck the juice more and the amount of shots available from one battery has already shrunk a bit? With all the features it's got it's not much of a surprise though...
Hey they got to make their coin somewhere I guess, hence the grip re-shape and BG5!
Some people like to do brackets of 5/7/9/ stops, hell knows why but they do, it's not going to take a lot of camera memory to appease them I suppose so it's an option for later which will cost little and please a few people???
Hey they got to make their coin somewhere I guess, hence the grip re-shape and BG5!
Some people like to do brackets of 5/7/9/ stops, hell knows why but they do, it's not going to take a lot of camera memory to appease them I suppose so it's an option for later which will cost little and please a few people???
Comment by jules posted on Meet the Ricoh/Pentax D400! at 09/10/2013 - 08:46
Here's the thing though and where Size Matters in the photographic industry at least!
Despite the undoubted furore the K3 is causing, despite the groans the Nikon D610 is recieivng (And it really is!), I bet Canon have a 7D MKII and Nikon a D400 sat waiting to go if the 70D/6D and the D7100/D610 combo's don't catch the market share their research has told them they will. They've got em waiting in the wings to slap Ricoh/Pentax and indeed Olympus with it's EM1 back into their respective boxes, they can afford to research these camera's and bring them to market only if required/demanded. Ricoh will increase their share surely with this Camera but htey've got to keep their foot on the gas, I can't see them overtaking Canon and Sony as they are giants but Nikon could be dropping the ball here, Pentax used to have a bigger following than Nikon and look what happened! I'd settle for a close fourth in sales with a market share in the middle high teens, which would be double the current. It will not take much more of a range to do so, they need to fulfill the roadmap, the Pro Centres are a great idea and on the increase, (Similar idea to the Sony centres of excellence) and getting a lot more space on the shelves, also they are back in some of the high street electrical retailers too, all good.
K5II/s, K50, K50, Q7, HD Limiteds, HD 55-300, MX-1, GR and new flashes in under a year and I still sound like I'm complaining, I'm not!
Despite what John Riley thinks of them, I still think Pentax need an APSC Rangefinder/CsC, along the lines of the K-O1/Nex but more of a system camera, like the Nex, with it's own flashes and accessories, to wring the last drop out of APSC before and indeed if they decide to hit us with what must surely be called the D-LX? (Full Frame)( still hate the term!) and a wide, standard and long F2.8 zooms...
I sense Ricoh have their foot on the gas but I hope they don't tire (Tyre? :lol if they don't quite get into the twenties for market share percentage, soon if ever, as they can't just expect the big three to stand and watch it happen?
Despite the undoubted furore the K3 is causing, despite the groans the Nikon D610 is recieivng (And it really is!), I bet Canon have a 7D MKII and Nikon a D400 sat waiting to go if the 70D/6D and the D7100/D610 combo's don't catch the market share their research has told them they will. They've got em waiting in the wings to slap Ricoh/Pentax and indeed Olympus with it's EM1 back into their respective boxes, they can afford to research these camera's and bring them to market only if required/demanded. Ricoh will increase their share surely with this Camera but htey've got to keep their foot on the gas, I can't see them overtaking Canon and Sony as they are giants but Nikon could be dropping the ball here, Pentax used to have a bigger following than Nikon and look what happened! I'd settle for a close fourth in sales with a market share in the middle high teens, which would be double the current. It will not take much more of a range to do so, they need to fulfill the roadmap, the Pro Centres are a great idea and on the increase, (Similar idea to the Sony centres of excellence) and getting a lot more space on the shelves, also they are back in some of the high street electrical retailers too, all good.
K5II/s, K50, K50, Q7, HD Limiteds, HD 55-300, MX-1, GR and new flashes in under a year and I still sound like I'm complaining, I'm not!
Despite what John Riley thinks of them, I still think Pentax need an APSC Rangefinder/CsC, along the lines of the K-O1/Nex but more of a system camera, like the Nex, with it's own flashes and accessories, to wring the last drop out of APSC before and indeed if they decide to hit us with what must surely be called the D-LX? (Full Frame)( still hate the term!) and a wide, standard and long F2.8 zooms...
I sense Ricoh have their foot on the gas but I hope they don't tire (Tyre? :lol if they don't quite get into the twenties for market share percentage, soon if ever, as they can't just expect the big three to stand and watch it happen?
Comment by jules posted on Meet the Ricoh/Pentax D400! at 09/10/2013 - 08:08
Well according to Thom Hogan anyway! (who?) A Well respected Nikon,photographer/writer/reviewer and talker of sense!
http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/meanwhile-meet-the-pentax.html
How times change...
I used to own a D300/300s (Suprise Suprise!:lol
Great Camera but I can tell you the D7100 is not what D300/s users were looking for, many have already gone off to buy Canon 7D's and I know a few who are now eyeing the K3...
http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/meanwhile-meet-the-pentax.html
How times change...
I used to own a D300/300s (Suprise Suprise!:lol
Great Camera but I can tell you the D7100 is not what D300/s users were looking for, many have already gone off to buy Canon 7D's and I know a few who are now eyeing the K3...
Comment by jules posted on Meet the Ricoh/Pentax D400! at 09/10/2013 - 07:44
Papa_Lazarou wrote:
Join you in that boat Phil!johnriley wrote:
SRS are also offering a £100 part exchange bonus, so there's your £999.00 right at launch.
I can see that John, but I bet they'll offer a low price for my K-5 IIS.SRS are also offering a £100 part exchange bonus, so there's your £999.00 right at launch.
£999 is an absolute bargain for a Camera with that build and feature set, it'll be £999 soon enough without the trade in bonus, I'm hoping within about 6 months it'll settle to maybe £899 street and I'll try to get one then. I think the D7100 RRP is set at £1099 and it's avaiable from WEX now for £839. Nowhere near the spec of the K3 in my opinion...
Comment by jules posted on Officially K-3? at 08/10/2013 - 09:13
http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/k-3/feature/
Page 2 gives a very good explanation of the AF system. For example:
Auto tracking**
to trace the subject’s movement in tandem with the new scene analysis system
The PENTAX Real-time Scene Analysis System accurately detects the color, shape and movement of a subject, and keeps monitoring it throughout the imaging process. With the help of this innovative system, the K-3 automatically shifts the AF point to trace the subject’s movement with great speed and precision. Thanks to a wide AF area covered by 27 AF points, it maintains the sharp focus on the subject, even when it’s moving at high speed or when you are using the high-speed continuous shooting mode.
** This function is available when the camera’s AF mode is set to AF.C (continuous) or AF.A (auto).
Page 2 gives a very good explanation of the AF system. For example:
Auto tracking**
to trace the subject’s movement in tandem with the new scene analysis system
The PENTAX Real-time Scene Analysis System accurately detects the color, shape and movement of a subject, and keeps monitoring it throughout the imaging process. With the help of this innovative system, the K-3 automatically shifts the AF point to trace the subject’s movement with great speed and precision. Thanks to a wide AF area covered by 27 AF points, it maintains the sharp focus on the subject, even when it’s moving at high speed or when you are using the high-speed continuous shooting mode.
** This function is available when the camera’s AF mode is set to AF.C (continuous) or AF.A (auto).
Comment by jules posted on Officially K-3? at 08/10/2013 - 08:46
New Zeiss 55mma snip at only $4,000/€3,000
Comment by jules posted on Pentax's Lenses are cheap... at 07/10/2013 - 18:45
Mike-P wrote:
Uses same battery at least but after scanning the specs a couple of times I don't see any mention of twin card slots?
It doe Mike but I can't be assed to find the pic this arvo...Uses same battery at least but after scanning the specs a couple of times I don't see any mention of twin card slots?
Comment by jules posted on Officially K-3? at 07/10/2013 - 16:39
Not FF
Comment by jules posted on Officially K-3? at 07/10/2013 - 13:07
Yep!
The whole shebang comes pretty much as a unit out of the Nex 5n, obviously there is some Pentax snake oil involved too but they got the Sensor and the twelve bit milbeaut image engine in a oner...
Designed from the up for video, live view, peaking etc.
There is at least four versions of this sensor/image pipeline, two 14Bit and two 12Bit and two different 16Mp sensors...
I'd guess that the same electronics aren't always available for more than a year (Everyone updates!), and some of the changes may be forced by what's now available on the market.
The whole shebang comes pretty much as a unit out of the Nex 5n, obviously there is some Pentax snake oil involved too but they got the Sensor and the twelve bit milbeaut image engine in a oner...
Designed from the up for video, live view, peaking etc.
There is at least four versions of this sensor/image pipeline, two 14Bit and two 12Bit and two different 16Mp sensors...
I'd guess that the same electronics aren't always available for more than a year (Everyone updates!), and some of the changes may be forced by what's now available on the market.
Comment by jules posted on which to get next? at 07/10/2013 - 09:39
This is all very well, but I haven't ever seen the point of switching from system to system when something new comes out. Next week it will be something else anyway.
It's probably very boring to some, but I use cameras to make images. Upgrading happens when needed because something breaks or because I get a sudden twitchy mouse finger on Amazon...
As for CSCs, there was one sat on my shelf a couple of days ago. Other marques are off topic, but suffice it to say that with lens it was only slightly less bulky than a K-50. It also didn't work. Dead as a dodo straight out of the box.
Trying one at the moment, it's not much less in size then my IIs and frankly isn't as sharp, nor does it have the Dynamic range, Got it because my mate who had 25 years, in the business kept harping on about how good and sharp the image quality is, and the lovely highlight to shadow transitions it has, yadda yadda yadda...
It's soft and fuzzy compared to my IIs, it does do lovely jpegs though but that's it so I can't really see the point, a Pentax one kitted with a set of Limited's now...
Been a serial switcher but then that's been to do with personal problems and nothing to do with brand loyalty or lack of it in the past but I'm well on the way to getting better about these things. Was worried for a time I may have made a bad move coming back to Pentax but it felt right so I am Giving them a longer go and the future is now looking a little more secure...