On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:46:24AM -0700, Jaume Lahuerta wrote: > >>BTW, Paul, this link is an example of why it is worth looking > occasionally at dpreview, despite the admitted annoyances of that site. > News such as this shows up much earlier there than it does here. > > Today I was just thinking that this list has somehow shifted its focus since > the digital era took over. > Before there were few places to talk about Pentax equipment, so this was a > main topic. But the digital brought also more 'competitors' and people here > seems a bot bored of too technical (and lots of times closer to computers > rather than photography) so this kind of threads are not as popular anymore. > So we find much more PESOs, GMFs, OTs, so the list is more about people > talking on photography and showing what they do, that normally own (or used > to) Pentax equipment. > > No more bloody fights (except when the magic words arise: 'aperture > simulator') but also no more guru's anticipating future developments...that's > why people has to look elsewhere to find it and, eventually, report it here > in case someone is still interested.
That's because digital SLRs are, by now, a mature technology. Pentax addressed most of the complaints about the *ist-D in the K10D, and polished off a few more with the K20D. Apart from the "full-frame" sensor (non-)issue, there's not a lot wrong with the K20D for almost everybody almost all the time. The advent of the SDM lenses removed another potential source of complaints, too. So while the K20D isn't perfect, it will do for now. Pentax have intimated they are working on a model beyond the K20D, so there's room for speculating on future developments (will it have better build quality, a faster frame rate, faster AF, etc., etc.). But most people don't care, because what they can get now is more than good enough to be useful. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
