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After more than 3 years using (with great delight) the Pentax K-5, I felt that some changes were maybe needed.
I skipped the K-5 II (and its sibling, the K-5 IIs without an anti-aliases/AA filter) because I felt these were not worth an upgrade). I thought that maybe I would switch to something lighter and smaller such as one of the shiny new Fuji hybrid cameras (X100s, X-E2 or even the newly release X-T1) but before that, Pentax got a new camera out: The K-3.
Many changes in that one:
- 24 Mpxl in a new CMOS sensor
- dual SD slot
- improved auto-focus with 27 points incl. 25 cross-type in the center
- improved metering system with 86000 zones
- improved auto white balance metering
but still using the much-loved K-7/K-5 body (but with an enhanced grip, requiring another grip - sigh).
I can confirm that the new metering system is much better than the previous one and the auto-white balance (AWB) setting is much more reliable now. The camera is also faster at continuous shooting (8 fps) and at processing them. It even displaying each picture when going continuous.
Of course, the RAW files are larger but that does not seem to be an issue with Lightroom (now at 5.3); DNG are easily processed.
