With Pentax, RAW mode improves the image balance. The photos look more natural at all ISO levels. The fine detail tends to increase in fields with little contrast. Noise is not a big problem when untreated, but it may be annoying in some subjects. Too much denoising (LR3) costs too many details.

Apart from the higher endurance per battery charge due to the analogue viewfinder, there are hardly any arguments left for an SLR system. However, the Pentax K-3 Mark III is technically up to date. It offers a sensor of the current generation, sensor-based image stabilisation and a fast autofocus...

The K-3 Mark III from Pentax knows how to convince with a nicely sized viewfinder as well as a robust housing. But the photos produced by this camera are also of solid quality. The fast autofocus is helpful here. While this is a great camera for photographers, serious videographers should look for another model.

The price of the new camera is perhaps a little daring. At just under 2,000 euros for the Pentax top SLR system and APS-C sensor, one could switch to full-frame photography. The market will show how the street price of the Pentax camera will develop. The consistent retention of the SLR principle can please with its implementation by the new model - and here, too, the users will show whether the manufacturer's...

With the Pentax K-3 Mark III, Ricoh has succeeded in producing a very good camera that comes second in our test field behind the Canon EOS 90D. The very robust housing was particularly convincing in the test; a plus point over Canon and Nikon is the built-in image stabiliser and pixel shift...