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An old but very capable K-3, first experience with Pentax

Started Mar 30, 2017 | Discussions thread
Tatouzou
Tatouzou Senior Member • Posts: 2,081
Re: An old but very capable K-3, first experience with Pentax
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Manzur Fahim wrote:

Hello everyone,

Hope you are all well and having a great day.

I wanted to share my experience with you all. I have used the Pentax K-3 and two Pentax lenses for 3-4 weeks, as I wanted to try them out and see how the grass is on the other side. I must admit I liked using the camera. Very durable, and outputs some great quality images. I quite liked the 50-135mm F/2.8 lens too, it was like having a smaller FF and a 70-200 at hand I wrote my experience with them as a blog on my website, please feel free to have a look

http://www.mf-photography.com/Article-reviews/Pentax-K3-Review

Enjoy, and please feel free to share any feedback if you have. I know this is an old camera, but to me it was new as it was my first Pentax camera to try out.

Have a great day everyone.

I hve K3 and my son had DA 50-135 f2.8, a very nice lens, though big and rather slow to AF.

My most used zoom is the very compact DA 18-135 f3.5-5.6, very well built, fast and silent focusing and extremely convenient focal range. Some complain corners are soft when pixel peepin, but it delivers very appealing pictures, very sharp in the center up to 80, still sharp in the center stopped down at the long end, with high contrast and microcontrast.

The K3 IQ, ergonomy and AF-S are top class, only issue is a sub-par AF-C.

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