Mag07, mine seems to work fine. I've only tested it up to 20 shots so far, but it seems to count accurately, and shows an 'interval composite complete' message at the end. I have it set on composite/average, save process unchecked, interval 2 seconds, variable number of shots, and start interval as now.

Rich: the OP is referring to the K-3II's interval composite mode, not the intervalometer. This allows multiple exposures on an automated basis, and the user can choose between average/additive/bright settings to control how the camera produces the result. You can also choose to save the multiple exposures (for averaging in PP if you want to) or just the final result. Why? Amongst other things, this is a very cool way of not having to use ND filters and getting effective long shutter speeds in bright sunlight for e.g. the kind of smooth water shots that are easier in dim light. This is already possible in Photoshop by a roundabout route, but this mode produces the effect in camera as a single RAW file (or JPEG if you prefer). By selecting 'average' and say 30 shots, then with a shutter speed of 1/30 second you get an effective shutter speed of 1 second. Want a longer effective shutter speed, then dial in more shots. The camera then averages them and outputs a single picture in which you have intentional water blur - kind of the opposite of pixel shift! I also understand that this also lowers the effective ISO (ISO/number of shots, so in this example, 100/30 = ISO 3.3 for very low noise) but haven't looked at this.

You can also intentionally way under-expose to get low ISO and fast shutter speed, and use the additive feature to then bring the exposure back up to normal with multiple exposures.

Absolutely agree, John. I'm very impressed with the K50/1.2 - but it's a special-use lens, not my normal walkabout.

Phworr, nice K2, John! Always liked the K2, a halfway house between the KM/KX/SPF body shape and that of the ME Super.

No K-1 for me. I'm still delighted with the K-3II and wouldn't want to lose the 20-40 as my walkabout lens.

I have been experimenting with pixel shift using the K-3II. When I was developing one of today's photos in the most recent DCU5 v5.5.1, I happened to notice in the EXIF table - 'Pixel shift resolution - On (Motion Correction On)'! Checking back on other PS shots right back to when I got the K-3II in November last year, they all say the same, and the PS icon in DCU5 shows as 'camera setting' - but you can also set it to off or on manually.

So I thought, does this mean that the K-3II has always had motion correction in pixel shift mode as per the new K-1, but it only needed DCU5 to catch up with the release of the K-1, in order to be able to display it? If so then this would make yet another strong case for using DCU5 for pixel shift development. Here's what I found, with an example that I took in April using the 20-40 Limited. These pictures are 100% crops of the same pixel shift DNG in DCU v5.5.1, the new version released along with the K-1. All I did was turn motion correction off in DCU5 and then back on again and take screen captures of both. The output is clear - the new version of DCU5 does apply motion correction to K-3II files! This pretty much makes the K-3II's pixel shift mode as good as the K-1's. So just when software like Lightroom and ACR were beginning to implement basic pixel shift algorithms, DCU has gone one better.

Motion correction turned on in DCU5:



And off:

Hi John; no sooner said... Here's a shot of my other mechanical beauty's nose, wide open. (K-3II, f1.2, 1/800 sec. ISO400, tripod, pixel-shift, 2-second delay.) The reduction in size for posting has almost removed the dust that is clearly visible on the upper arm of the star in the original.

Hehe, me too, Lenny! Although I haven't even picked up any photo mag in decades, probably.

I bought a bargain K50/f1.2 here in the UK for £99 - couldn't believe my luck (yes, it was me). The glass was in very good condition: no marks or fungus, but the body was pretty beat up with the filter ring distorted and the metal of the nose creased where it must have been dropped. So I contacted Brian Gohacki (dcshooter on the US forum) to ask if he could help with refurbishing it, and what a marvellous job he's done. Here it was before, mounted on my K-3II:




And here it is now, chrome nose and all!




I'm very happy with its new individual look, and my sincere thanks to Brian for what he's done with this classic lens.

Good grief, Nigel, have you been drinking too much coffee?

I agree with Rich, it's probably more about the 'peripherals' and their robustness/accessibility rather than the feature set itself. After all, scene modes are pre-sets for what you might set manually, so they're almost like unmodifiable user modes.

Speaking of which, it never occurred to me that the lack of a physical SR switch could have been intentionally something to do with the setting of this function in the user modes. You learn something all the time.

I'd thought that maybe the K-3II might have done it all by itself, using the GPS - but no!

Enjoy the K-5; it's a great camera.