I try my best not to be an overly technical photographer at the expense of composition and more generally the creative aspect of photography. Since picking up the K-3 III, however, I sense that I am facing a serious learning curve before this beast of an APS-C DSLR will become as much of an extension of my own vision as the classic K-3 has been for so many years. Your videos help make that journey less daunting and more fun and may eventually help me refocus sooner on the creative endeavour that photography is and properly should be. Keep 'em comin', Kobie. You're easily one of the leading sources on the intricacies of the K-3 III's AF system on the Internet, and I sure appreciate that. 👍🏻

Great series . The K3 mark III gives you a lot of functionality but not enough explanation. Your videos make the difference. Thanx Kobie!

Once again many thanks Kobie.

One of my favorite things about Katie is that the User Modes retain the AF settings with excruciating detail.

Thanks again Kobie.

Hello from France. The videos you are currently making are extremely interesting. They replace what PENTAX should have done when it evolved the K3 III firmeware by evolving the AUTOFOCUS. Please continue to specify these different functions by specifying if possible in conclusion which combinations of autofocus settings are more suitable for landscape photos, portraits, animal, macro, and street photos. We get a little lost in the avalanche of possible settings without being sure to use the most effective combination depending on the type of photos we make. Thanks in advance

I have been using Pentax cameras since the late 70s. From K1000 to MeSuper, to K-M(1st digital) and now the K3iii. I appreciate your videos very much and keep them coming. As videos are locked in time, it would be appreciated if, at the beginning, the Firmware version was always mentionned. Menus may change in time with added capabilities where knowing the Firmware version would allow us to adapt to a specific video that may have been done in an older version. I do appreciate the work you do. Best regards; Gilles

..thanks Kobie.. this is very useful information... I'm waiting for more ! :)

Another excellent, thorough video, refreshing us on the K-3iii AF capabilities and settings. When using AF-C for sports, I find it extremely capable and the only poor images are down to my error. When photographing birds in flight, as long as the subject is kept in the AF area, there is a high percentage of keepers. When photographing small static birds, I often use SEL or ExS, which seem very effective at focussing on the bird's eye, even though subject recognition is not deployed. When taking portraits, I generally do not rely on the zones, but put the focus point on the eye. It was interesting on your AF-S video that a lens with a shallow depth of field gives better results when using zones for eye detection. This makes sense, as a greater depth of field gives the camera greater latitude to obtain focus.

Thank you

Hola amigo, So that's interesting for me! First video in the morning while having some coffe, Thanks for that. Now, I'd say subject recognition works very well for me as I tend to use S small focus area. I have been shooting with almost the same parameters as you suggest this weekend the WorldSBK race here in Catalunya and also the previous WorldSBK testing and some other car races prior to that, and I found that for motorbikes if you pre-focus as I am used to do, the subject recognition point can (you need to help it pointing to the helmet) follow easily the rider. For cars what happens is that (closed cockpit cars) if finds the driver's helmet via the front window of the car, and you can end up with a full blurry car with the helmet on focus. Which is okay, but not my goal when I slow to 1/50th of a second on a car coming towards me. So I don't know if I love it. BUT it works very well indeed combined with Type 3, Mode 5. Now, I'd like to know about the catch-in ON that you have there. I have it Off for no particular reason. And also I will recheck everything you said and see if I do the same. I think I shoot the first frame as is, not requiring the camera to find it on focus, but other than that 90% I do the same. But I will re-watch you know, camera in hand and check step by step. Cheers,

I think RicohImaging said that: the Subject Recognition works while Full Auto Focus, Zone Auto Focus or Image Customization is set to auto Either of one these would enable subject recognition

Interesting. Information. Keep on Snappin. .. !!

I just received some very disappointing information. According to several major camera retailers in Japan, the Pentax k3 III black color will be discontinued. However, the silver color will continue to be produced.

Nos das la vida no cambies

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Hi Kobie! Another excellent tutorial video. A question, do you use the back focus button in AF.C mode, or the shutter release button?

If your shooting portraits, do you find you get better focus on faces using the screen by using face recognition setting, or by putting the auto focus on single point and just putting that point over the eye of the subject? Thanks..🙂📸