The issue was sadly very common with this model, and customers were not particularly well supported if outside the warranty period.
In this particular model case, more could definitely have been done.

Nice!

So good, well done. High level of skill on display there, regardless of the camera.

Extremely well delivered set.

Couple of tech questions, what was your shutter speed and did you turn off SR whilst panning or leave it on?

Great stuff!

This is just exactly my thoughts as well.

There is a significant difference in specialties between the K-1 and the K-3. The K-3 is a very capable fast camera and the K-1 a slower but incredibly detailed and capable camera with a different objective.

I don't really subscribe to the marketing focus on sensor size anymore, as there are very capable cameras all the way up to the now quite old 645Z.
You really do need to start with your requirements and priorities, and then chose a tool from there.

That's really moving. Excellent vocals and the images are great too.
Agree this type of content would serve well for fundraising purposes too.

Is hard to watch aspects of the video, as we're living relatively unchanged here in NZ after a serious 7 week lockdown early in 2020.
We lock down now and again as new cases are found in the community, but outside of those it's often business as usual.

Took the kids to their first major concert last month, with over 32,000 in the Wellington stadium, so we're locked in down here in another world at the moment.
Have family in central London and Vietnam, and the conversations between the two are quite different these days.

What a painful time wasting experience that sounds like. Can imagine the frustration!

Sad to see that sort of language here.

There has been a formal Pentax show and tell overseas, including cut in half display models etc
Assume the specs are pretty well sorted now.

Not exactly what I would want but I too have thought Pentax had a solid claim to a retro camera. Instead Olympus and Fuji have grabbed that market.

It would be fun to see a camera dedicated to old school manual operation. No AF and no video for the purists. Unfortunately it all starts getting very niche (low sales) but it would be fun.

Pick up an older film camera and it’s a delight for the senses. Cold harsh metal, the smell of the leather cases, very tactile mechanical operation and little of the modern ergonomics with boxy frames, and massive viewfinders with light meters to aid exposure. By comparison all modern dslrs feel quite plastic and disconnected to me.

I’ve heard Pentax and users say they want to feel the fun of crafting an image, rather than electronics do all the work, but I also find that fun disappears quite quickly if I return home and find my camera hasn’t focussed correctly. If features like auto focus abs video etc are included then they need to work as best as they can.

Yep as far as I know all other mirrorless cameras have come with a new mount and an adapter to use older lenses.

That’s the biggest reason I can see for Pentax not entering the mirrorless market, and having to duplicate the lens lineup in a different mount.

Outside of the mount, mirrorless has more in common with dslrs than different. It’s just no mirror/prism viewfinder but still has a mechanical shutter. The likes of the K-70 show that you can have on sensor AF points on a dslr, they just won’t work when the mirror is down.