Like its predecessor the Pentax K-3, this is a superbly put together camera. Its body is made from magnesium alloy over a metal chassis and it's reassuringly solid without being heavy. It's also fully weatherproof, with 92 seals ensuring that you're probably more at risk from rain, dust and cold than it is.

Just as importantly, the K-3 II is a lovely camera to hold and use. The deep grip probably won't be to everybody's taste but it sure makes it easy to pick up. It also has more buttons, dials and switches than the Millennium Falcon's cockpit.

If you're holding it in standard one-hand-on-the-grip-one-on-the-lens-mode, you'll find that almost all of the controls are reachable without the need for any finger gymnastics.

Pentax gives you a sensible selection of them and some useful extras, too. How so? Well you'll also find a button just for selecting RAW shooting mode - incredibly useful if you tend to shoot JPEGs but want to toggle RAW mode for just a couple of tricky photos before reverting afterwards. There's also a GPS button and both buttons and switches for selecting focus modes.

It feels as if lots of thought has gone into the control system in order to make it as usable as possible - for instance the control dial is both lockable and unlockable. We've lost count of the number of times we've been left frustrated by lockable dials that you have to unlock every time you want to change a setting (we're looking at you, Fujifilm X-T1) or that don't lock at all.

The K-3 II can do either. There's even a button for selecting which of the two SD card slots you want to view in Playback mode.