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Comment by jules posted on Asking a favour form anyone who owns a K5iiS and a K3 at 26/02/2014 - 07:01
Public gets what the Public wants...
Photographers don't get what Photographers want, more's the pity...
Photographers don't get what Photographers want, more's the pity...
Comment by jules posted on Asking a favour form anyone who owns a K5iiS and a K3 at 26/02/2014 - 06:41
I concur David but as I said there is no pleasing everybody, Jons choice would seem to be the best at this moment in time too for his stated purposes, unfortunately it may mean that Pentax loses another user. Pentax will eventually address the issue if it takes a bigger sensor to keep em then so be it, thats what we must have. Absolutely no use to me, having had over half a dozen of the damn things but some need it, how many users do they have to lose to other systems before they realise that the 645D is just too big a jump?
Comment by jules posted on Asking a favour form anyone who owns a K5iiS and a K3 at 26/02/2014 - 05:52
There is no pleasing everybody, which is why they need a range of cameras to suit us all.
A hi ISO monster would not suit someone like me who almost cries when he has to turn the ISO past 400!
All things considered I think the K3 is a winner but its obviously not for everyone, pity, cause your all missing out!
A hi ISO monster would not suit someone like me who almost cries when he has to turn the ISO past 400!
All things considered I think the K3 is a winner but its obviously not for everyone, pity, cause your all missing out!
Comment by jules posted on Asking a favour form anyone who owns a K5iiS and a K3 at 25/02/2014 - 20:22
Worth a read?
Not on a Pentax but the technique holds true for anything really...
EVF's aside...
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/51438226
Not on a Pentax but the technique holds true for anything really...
EVF's aside...
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/51438226
Smeggypants wrote:
ROFL!! you are a funny sometimes Jules.
Late getting that un Smeggy!jules wrote:
It's stopped me wanting a K5II (of any version) as a second body and got me looking fwd to a K60, if indeed it's real...
People need to Pony up and buy a K3, test it in the real world, I'm loving mine!
I wish I could afford two like Fletcher8!
Spend £978.00 just to test something?aliengrove wrote:
David Storm has very kindly uploaded some RAW files for me to play with. Unfortunately the fan on my computer is playing up again and it gets a bit warm when I do too much processing....I'm going to the UK next week and have ordered a new fan, so will finish the experiment then.
However, I have processed three files taken at ISO 6400, -2ev, all of the same scene with the same lens. It's surprised me: the K3 does indeed have more noise, negligibly, but it's very fine-grained, and after a bit of processing there is far more detail than in the K5 and K5iis shots. If I try and get rid of all the noise in the K3 file, there's not much to choose between the three cameras. However, with these ISO 6400 images processed to the point that I think they look good at 100%, and once all the images are resized to a size midway between the K3 and K5 file sizes, the K3 produces the best images imo (significantly so), with the most detail and least noise.
I'll update this for those who are interested once I've processed all the files.
As for my choice of what camera to buy next (I was planning to next week), Ricoh have thrown a spanner in the works as it seems there's some new models coming out.
Pretty much as I see it, in real use the K3 is better and not just by a bit but you need to turn off the defaults use RAW etc. I suppose some would argue that you have to "Fiddle" to get the best out of it but regardless it is better.David Storm has very kindly uploaded some RAW files for me to play with. Unfortunately the fan on my computer is playing up again and it gets a bit warm when I do too much processing....I'm going to the UK next week and have ordered a new fan, so will finish the experiment then.
However, I have processed three files taken at ISO 6400, -2ev, all of the same scene with the same lens. It's surprised me: the K3 does indeed have more noise, negligibly, but it's very fine-grained, and after a bit of processing there is far more detail than in the K5 and K5iis shots. If I try and get rid of all the noise in the K3 file, there's not much to choose between the three cameras. However, with these ISO 6400 images processed to the point that I think they look good at 100%, and once all the images are resized to a size midway between the K3 and K5 file sizes, the K3 produces the best images imo (significantly so), with the most detail and least noise.
I'll update this for those who are interested once I've processed all the files.
As for my choice of what camera to buy next (I was planning to next week), Ricoh have thrown a spanner in the works as it seems there's some new models coming out.
It's stopped me wanting a K5II (of any version) as a second body and got me looking fwd to a K60, if indeed it's real...
People need to Pony up and buy a K3, test it in the real world, I'm loving mine!
I wish I could afford two like Fletcher8!
ROFL!! you are a funny sometimes Jules.
Comment by jules posted on Asking a favour form anyone who owns a K5iiS and a K3 at 25/02/2014 - 19:48
Can you?
Really?
Oh I would have never guessed!
Really?
Oh I would have never guessed!
Comment by jules posted on Nice little review on the FLU Card at 25/02/2014 - 19:05
Don't want another Sony A77 thanks...
I like my batteries to last a couple of hours!
I like my batteries to last a couple of hours!
Comment by jules posted on Nice little review on the FLU Card at 25/02/2014 - 18:26
For me it's all about being able to control the camera from a tablet out in the wilds, then upload the shot to the tablet do a quick edit and blog it on my website, there's a lot to this tech, that will be useful to me going forwards, as long as I can keep my head above the waves that is
I'd like to see GPS on a card too, don't see why not having pulled apart a lot of Phones with GPS in my time (Used to fix em) the aerials are getting smaller as is all the other componentry and I reckon it'll go on an SD...
So an SD FLU Card in one slot and a GPS one in the other please...
I'd like to see GPS on a card too, don't see why not having pulled apart a lot of Phones with GPS in my time (Used to fix em) the aerials are getting smaller as is all the other componentry and I reckon it'll go on an SD...
So an SD FLU Card in one slot and a GPS one in the other please...
Comment by jules posted on Nice little review on the FLU Card at 25/02/2014 - 16:53
Now before you start along the "You should get it right in camera first time" diatribe Smeggy DON'T! Everything pretty much gets PP'd in some way or you wouldn't have Lightroom! (Actually another thing I have to thank you for, I used to use DXO but you banged on so hard about Lightroom Smeggy I tried it and the rest is history...)
K3 needs less because it's just far more accurate also, I print and you cannot tell the diifference noise wise in Print, which is what matters to me but you can print bigger with the same amount of noise, which also matters to me and gives the K3 the win in my humble opinion...
No flaming just a difference of viewing angle...