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Pentax continues to carry the torch for optical viewfinders

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Sam Byford
Apr 13, 2023
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Welcome back to Multicore for Thursday, April 13th.

Substack launched its don't-call-it-Twitter Notes feature to everyone yesterday. My impressions so far are pretty positive, and I think it could be a good way to post short-form content alongside the regular articles and issues. Check it out and let me know what you think.


DSLR cameras have been moribund for years. Canon and Nikon, the dominant duopoly, belatedly accepted that mirrorless was the future back in 2018 and haven't released any new single-lens reflex models since 2020. Pentax put out the K-3 Mark III in 2021, gave the aging K70 a touch-up as the KF last year, and that's really been it.

Until now, anyway, because Pentax is back with an unusual DSLR out of nowhere: the K-3 Mark III Monochrome. It's a $2,200 variant of the K-3 Mark III — that's a $200 premium — and as the name suggests, it only shoots black-and-white photos. That makes it the only monochrome DSLR on the market.

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