Read also: Review: The Pentax K-3 III Proves That DSLR Tech is Far From Finished From here for this piece, it’s all about noise. I won’t get into that as the point of this article is to focus on the high ISO image quality (perhaps I may go into other aspects of the camera in the future).
Where the new flagship APS-C camera stands out is in the modern optical viewfinder which includes eye detection autofocus. If using only live-view, there really is little difference between both platforms. The new PENTAX K-3 Mark III is in many ways a hybrid of a classic SLR and modern mirrorless camera. It’s a new high-end APS-C camera designed to compete not only in size but also with features and full-frame image quality. You don’t see many new SLRs announced these days when it seems that most camera enthusiasts talk about mirrorless as the future of photography, but to the surprise of those online voices that proclaim the optical viewfinder dead, Ricoh Imaging has released just that in the Pentax K-3 Mark III.
