A tiny and personal test of some EVF

hikerdoc wrote:

JeremieB wrote:

I never heard of anyone owning both a (let's say) Nikon D500 and a K3III, latest firmware of course or at least recent, with serious knowledge of both, enlightning us with the differences regarding AF. If anyone has any source like that, I'm interested.

That is a comparison Ricoh cannot win. How do you incorporate “AF has now reached the performance level of a discontinued competition camera from 7 years ago” into a marketing campaign? The K-III has to be accepted for what it is. There are several very skilled photogs in this forum whose work does not appear at all limited with the K3-III. The time window for deciding between D500 and K3-III has in essence closed.

That is, of course, true.

The start for this subthread was what price Pentax reasonable can set for the the K-1 III when it comes and also what price is reasonable for K-3 III.

But, of course, as Pentax no longer has any competition in the DSLR market, except for obsolete cameras, it is 100% up to Pentax what price they can set.

I think you can divide buyers into three categories.

• Those that only want an Pentax/OVF. They will not buy anything else. They will probably buy the camera at a rather high price. If the price gets too high, they will not buy any camera at all, using the old one.
• Those that do want to use Pentax/OVF, but are not foreign to an EVF. They can live with it. If they have to.
• Those that already have changed to the EVF bandwagon and see no (important) problems with that.

Only (a portion of) the first group can even think of paying a premium price for a K-1 III.