RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: Latest K-3 Technical Details (from my Trustable Source)

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Latest K-3 Technical Details (from my Trustable Source)

So, the last rumoured K-3 thing while is true but not exact. Of course, I believe my source. Here we go! :-D

Ricoh Pentax K-3: 24MP APS-C Sensor, Hardware AA Filter-less, Software AA Filter, PRIME III Image Processor, 86k RGB Segmented Light Metering with -3EV Sensitivity, 27-Point AF with -3EV Sensitivity, 8.5 Maximum FPS (Tentative), 4 Stop SR, 100% 0.95X Optical Viewfinder, Fixed Air-gapless LCD, Built-in Interval Shooting up to 2000 Frames and Internal Video Composite, MPEG4 AVC/H.264 Full HD 30p/60i Video, New Stereo Phone-out Monitor Jack, 3 User Modes, USB 3.0, 800g, US$1299.99 Body Only.

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badsykes · 598 weeks ago

I like the specs...This camera is about the upgrade of the other components and not really about the sensor itself..

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anonimity is great · 598 weeks ago

Nice, though I wish they'd use the 20MP sensor and the 1.0x viewfinder magnification as in the previous rumor.

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John · 598 weeks ago

Swivel display ?
Without that, the camera is unattractive to me.

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eighter · 598 weeks ago

i would have preferred a full frame camera.

do you have more info regarding the previous (fake or not) pictures of the full frame body ?

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hys · 598 weeks ago

A - ha!

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Uncle Vova · 598 weeks ago

This news are better then previous. ;) Good specs.

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anunnaki · 598 weeks ago

1300$=1300€ in Europe thats way too much for an APS-C camera no matter how good is otherwise. Btw is this the same 24Mpx sensor as in the D5200?

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Paul · 598 weeks ago

Full manual video? Focus peaking in video?

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ebk · 598 weeks ago

please no more fairy tales!!!!!

i believe it is a ff camera??????

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David · 598 weeks ago

Maybe you have info about design? Is it K7/K5 body?

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Dan Johnson · 598 weeks ago

How can Ricoh justify the cost of 24MP @ 8.5 fps (compared to Nikon's 16MP @ 10 fps) while sacrificing low light capability due to the pixel size of the image sensor it's buying from it's competition, I'm not looking forward to paying well over a grand for a DSLR (that needs good lighting at 1&1/2 times the distance) with little or no benefit from taking a big step into an overly dense under-sized image sensor???

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Dan Johnson · 598 weeks ago

I'll rehash it for you, a DSLR with 24MP @ 8.5 fps ain't free (it helps push the price up), on an expensive DSLR it not as big a difference as a DSLR for under 2 grand. Pixel density of a 48MP image sensor with a 35mm film plane makes low light performance costly, 24MP on a image sensor half the size has a similar effect. Sony makes Full Frame image sensors as well as smaller ones for their inexpensive DSLRs, the money you'll save on a 70-200mm lens (instead of a 120-300mm lens) is large coin and you'll want good low-light performance at long distance more than a lens factor. The new Zeiss lenses are said to be a big improvement if your FF image sensor is over 30MP, more than 20MP for C-Size image sensors causes pixel-density problems for the lenses as well as low light (with low noise at high ISO speed) problems. The answer is simple (for Sony), for great low-light buy a real good DSLR, for great resolution buy a real good DSLR, if you spend the extra cash for a high frame rate don't cheap-side the image sensor. Fan boys should stop assuming Eletro-Mechanical Engineers are stupid unless they make Xerox Machines for Ricoh.

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Dan Johnson · 598 weeks ago

BTW I have a K-5 & K-5IIs, no mater what they call the K-5III this time I can wait until it is clearance priced (like all the Fan Boys do) then buy it for well under $1000.00

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OBAMAISANASSHOLE · 598 weeks ago

APS-C ???? 1299.99 x .5 = 650.
This will go the way of the k-01. Max I will pay is 600, should be there by April.

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OBAMAISANASSHOLE · 598 weeks ago

Start a poll.
How many folks do you think pentax will send to Cannon and Nikon if it is an aps-c?
Not that many at all. There just are not a lot of folks left shooting the brand, just look around.....

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Mike Kawasaki · 598 weeks ago

See BH Photo, the new Nikon D7100 is $1195, body alone. That's an APS-C camera too, available in the market for more than 5 months.
I'd really love people stop trolling about the "price issue", before the mysterious Pentax DSLR product is even announced .. Geez!

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willi · 598 weeks ago

Well if the specs are true I will get 1 as soon as it is available I use D3s & D800 for my full frame work and when the going gets tough
- out comes my K5 & *+ or wr's . In pissing rain, hail or snow the pentax just shines!! anyway if I wanted a full frame Pentax then I can think of a better1 still : D645 or whatever it is called hmm. Pentax Guy's need to lighten up and appreciate that they can get the most { rugged set-up - quality - price ratio}

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Black_Wizards · 598 weeks ago

The specs looks cool for me. If the image quality is better than K5 IIs and ergonomy as good as it; I'll buy it!!!
Hope it is WR and the AF is great at low light....

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Barbarosa · 598 weeks ago

I will buy new body with new focus system and better video for my da*s, so I need APS-C

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over · 598 weeks ago

Richo stop all these crap anticipation still no fullframe. Pentax is dead

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SpendsalotonPentax · 598 weeks ago

$1300 means £1300 retail in the UK and that's way, way too much for an APS-C when Nikon and Canon are turning out FF cameras for not a lot more.

I think Pentax does not have long.

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sebas · 598 weeks ago

Fixed LCD is BAD

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kuhfiver · 597 weeks ago

This is the D400 you're looking for........

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kadajawi · 597 weeks ago

What the hell, why is the whole blog clickable on an Android phone? It's impossible to type anything, cause one wrong tap (basically anywhere on the screen) will take you to the next post, losing all you have typed!

As for the rumors... I hope they aren't true. Only 30 or 60 fps? No 24, 25, ...? And only AVCHD, no MJPEG? That sucks badly. I haven't seen any decent AVCHD implementation, most are rather simple and thus save little space, to achieve the MJPEG quality the K-5 gets you'd need very high bitrates on AVCHD too, at least the way it is implemented on most cameras. AVCHD has its uses, and there are times I'd like to have it too (at least it is a bit smaller, and sometimes that's what matters). Most of the time I'd rather convert to h264 (which AVCHD is based on) on my PC though. Then the quality is good and the files are small (I usually get a 10-20x reduction in file size without sacrificing quality), but at 1080p with 25 fps I get around 0.7 fps on an i5 at 4.5 GHz. You'd need at least 35 Intel i5 CPUs with 4 cores each to be fast enough... and the integrated CPU in a DSLR probably won't be that fast.

This thing sounds much more like a K-30 than a K-5 in terms of video, and that would be horrible news. It would probably mean no sensor shift for video... then I might as well buy a Canon 70D, at least they have good video AF.

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