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Monday, September 23, 2013

Camera Name K-3 Accidentially Leaked at the Official Ricoh's Japanese Website!

The following is the Official Japanese PPG (Pentax Photo Gallery), it once shown the name of K-3, together with the name of the "K-5 series", for photo submission under the same camera category! :-o

Via: http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~hu5150/dcl/camera_news/article/pentax/2013/0922_01.html (in Japanese)

Well, the picture was shortly deleted and reverted back now, where only appears the name K-5 series. However, the leaked picture with the original html code with the name of K-3 are captured! (Good job, man!) It surely is NOT a typo this time as the K-30 also appeared at the same time at the adjacent left, as the other category of Pentax' DSLR cameras!

So, the K-3 must be true this time. It is No More Rumour! It is really *Official*! :-D

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mario · 598 weeks ago

big deal!
maybe was a page to be uploaded in 2015!

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Guy with a K-5 · 598 weeks ago

This is not a 'accident'. When putting a new page on a production system, many people have had a look at it. That's testers, project people, business and marketing officials. So it must be a planned action. Just wait for someone to hit your site, download the page. When you know the proper people have published, change the page and Bob's your uncle. Another part of the plan was to 'leak' the news of the K-3 through this 'source' of RH. Probably Dpreview.com also have received real camera's to 'test' and publish about on the day the camera's are announced.
I am glad they do it this way. They get attention from many sites and the news, which actually is official, as it was approved by the marketing officials, will spread through the web. Well done, Ricoh/Pentax.

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Frans · 598 weeks ago

The K3 is a Full Frame not a APSC (FF with a APSC Crop)
http://fotografie.blog.nl/cameranieuws/2013/09/22...

the photo, The mirror is bigger than a apsc Mirror.

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Frans · 598 weeks ago

http://forum.xitek.com/thread-1000991-1-1-1.html

Chinese Forum (source)

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Frans · 598 weeks ago

I want to believe...lol because I would buy no more APSC Pentax.
Pentax FF if nothing comes out, I take a futur sony FFfor my FA limited

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Frans · 598 weeks ago

K3 is the same than EOS 70D.... EOS 70D 900 euros

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Frans · 598 weeks ago

Like many pentaxiste if I still buy a Pentax, it'll be the end of a series at very low prices ... but no new ...

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Sudip · 598 weeks ago

People can very easily change inner Html using browser tools or independent tools like firebug. Somebody could have made a good use out of them.

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Frans · 598 weeks ago

th Pentax K5 IIS is always for 1000 euros....

For me i prefer http://www.photo-univers.fr/nex-5r/7313-SONY-NEX-...

The price is better :-)

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david · 598 weeks ago

well, this is unfortunate or just news 1 week to late. One new APC Body would interest me, but...I just manage to sell all my Pentax gear, some auctions are still running.. and got myself a reduced (20%) D800 with some lenses (24-85, 70-200 2.8, 50mm 1.8).
In the end i didnt spend more for the Nikon and i have a great Fullframe camera. Traded a K5 with 7 lenses against D800 with 3 lenses.
First impressions are great! Top AF speed, top ISO performance. I am still interested about new Pentax products ofcourse, you never know what Pentax will bring in FF area :-)

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Frans · 598 weeks ago

I love my nex and my Pentax K lens http://www.flickr.com/photos/criminologue/9893876...

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Frans · 598 weeks ago

For me, i use now NEx 5 and Zeiss ZM. Its better (quality image) than K5 and my limited....

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OlegFyodorov · 598 weeks ago

I think Pentax is trolling us. ))

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Steve · 598 weeks ago

Pentax is dead....Zero innovation...bye bye

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Steve · 598 weeks ago

Do not forget that Ricoh has stopped its reflex mount K in the 1980s. It will be the same with the digital.

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OBAMAISANASSHOLE · 598 weeks ago

Worse than no new Camera for Pentax. This is enough to push another 10-15% of the customer base t another brand. Pentax does not have long to go. I hope cannon or Nikon buy and support the mount.

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OBAMAISANASSHOLE · 598 weeks ago

A APS-C camera few want and fewer will buy. How is the unemployment insurance in Japan? Pentax employees want to know.

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SpendsalotonPentax · 598 weeks ago

With Sony managing to stick FF sensors in point and shoot bodies (RX1), surely Pentax can put a FF sensor in the present (and excellent) K-5 body. K-mount was designed for 35mm film in any case, so it cannot be that difficult.

If the K-3 is just another APS-C with <30-point AF and poor metering then all my Pentax gear will be going on ebay apart from the few full frame PK lenses I may have converted to the mount of the FF manufacturer I'll be moving to. Probably Nikon.

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Mistral75 · 598 weeks ago

The K-3 rumour is confirmed by Google's cache, at least the name itself.

See https://www.google.fr/search?q=%22K-3%22+site%3Ar... and http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/attachments/pe...

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Andrés · 598 weeks ago

For Sony-CaNikons lovers, imo your cameras are a bunch of well eficient High Tech parts fixed together with no sense at all of the photographic experience. Hold a 7D or any NEX in one hand it´s a pain. Their Menus are stupidly organized.
Pentax could not have some of SCF features, but from the Q to K-5(s) are all a Joy to use. You love photography after you use a Pentax photo tool. Some Panasonic´s too.

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foton · 598 weeks ago

Some thoughts to ponder, guys. Do you think Ricoh would be introducing an APS-C camera with absolutely no profits in view? I am sure they are not so silly. I mean, SHORT TERM profits. Now, many speculate that Pentax is doomed. How could this be when so many full frame compatible Pentax lenses are on hand? Many sell these to switch brands? Maybe, true. But then somebody buys them! What that means is that those lenses are quite slow to "evaporate" into nonexistence. So, isn't it obvious that when Ricoh introduces a FF in future (I guess this would happen if the demand for APS-C becomes unprofitable), that many of those lens owners will be tempted to buy one? Are Ricoh silly not to know that? I am sure they have their calculations.

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Robert · 598 weeks ago

exposure time question:

Focal lenght 90mm (FF), 60 mm (APS-C)
Subject distance = 2m (for head and shoulders)
depth of field = 12cm (for the hole face, distance nose to ear)

==> f-stop: f/4.2 (FF), f/2.8 (APS-C)
==> exposure time FF is more than two times (2.25) exposure time APS-C

Please tell me if I am wrong!

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criminologue 29p · 598 weeks ago

The futur of K mount---> Hybrid (NEx, samsung, Panasonic, Fujifilm)
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/imageBank/s/...

DSLR APSC is DEAD.....Ist time to Full Frame for Big Camera and APSC System for smal hybrid camera. It is logic...

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Russ Gibbons · 598 weeks ago

Something between Full frame and APS?
I've heard this would be 20M pix (maybe for APS),
and 24 M pix (maybe for something slightly smaller than full frame?

Many of Pentax Full Frame lenses are not big enough to support the sensor moving for shake reduction, but they would be OK for something between Full frame and APS. Some of the new DS lenses seem a bit bigger than needed for APS, They too would work well in either 20M pix for APS mode, and 24M pix for the slightly larger sensor's edges.

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BzeroIsAnAss · 598 weeks ago

I have shot pentax since the mid 70's. I have not spent 1 cent on new Pentax gear in the last three years. I will continue to not spend on anything Pentax going forward. If Pentax does come out with a full frame that is less of a camera than what the competition offers as it seems they are doing with the k-3 flagship I will pass on that one the way I am passing on ANY APS-C.

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