RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: Bad Colour Response of the K-3 (and my Possible Solution)

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Bad Colour Response of the K-3 (and my Possible Solution)

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/pentax-k-3/12#Colour

DPR couldn't find an acceptable better setting even though they had tried their best to fiddle around with many in-camera colour settting parameters but in vain.

However, there might be a workaround I previously found out and proposed. I don't know if it could work for the K-3 or as it is notorious that the K-3 had even worse colour response than the K-5. But if you are a K-3 user, you can try anyway and tell me your results when my settings are applied:

My Best Optimal Custom Image (Colour) Setting Combination for the Later Pentax Digital Bodies

As for that crappy JPEG engine and sharpening issue, I think there is not much to do and deal with unless RAW is shot.

Comments (30)

Logging you in...

Dashboard | Edit profile | Logout

Logged in as

+8 Vote up Vote down

amnesix · 570 weeks ago

I haven't shot *one* jpg since my first K10D. I can't understand what your problem is, sorry.... :D

2 replies · active 570 weeks ago

-2 Vote up Vote down

optimus prime · 570 weeks ago

DPR thinks the movie SR is not a digital algorithm ... wtf do they know ?

4 replies · active 569 weeks ago

-1 Vote up Vote down

Pixies · 570 weeks ago

It's too bad this camera came out not fully QAed. I'm sitting on the fence till they fix this and the Z plane focusing issue. Such a shame. I had very high hopes for this camera.

2 replies · active 569 weeks ago

+8 Vote up Vote down

Ian · 570 weeks ago

Why buy a good dSLR & shoot jpg? Surely you would unleash the potential of RAW & 16 bit processing.

9 replies · active 569 weeks ago

+1 Vote up Vote down

Match · 570 weeks ago

They need to write some cons anyway.... They are actually saying almost perfect so I don't see this is an issue.

-1 Vote up Vote down

Barbarosa · 569 weeks ago

jpeg is just bad interpretation of interpretation

these days I use a bit Nex-5n, pentax is parsecs away in WB and colors.
Rice like to compare to canon, so just need to remember digic-4 orange tones all over images in time when raw development on computers was really slow or cameras even didn't have raw option.