Well, maybe there is a third camera in this package - that new Samsung
offering with interchangeable lenses is very much like the Pentax and
the Nikon. Who's making what parts is a good question indeed.
What if the Samsung is the full project, with Pentax and Nikon as side
models with their own specific agendas?
LF
Adam Maas escreveu:
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:32 AM, John Celio <[email protected]> wrote:
It's a rebadged Nikon P90 (which likely isn't originally a Nikon, but
some Chinese OEM's product).
Might be the same on the inside, but certainly not on the outside.
And of course Pentax Optics are superior.
Check it out...
http://homepage.mac.com/jomac/X70%20vs%20P90/
I think you got that somewhat backwards. The outsides are very similar,
with some minor cosmetic changes here and there, but the insides are more
likely to be pretty different because of Pentax's SR system. Obviously the
Nikon has a flip-out screen, which I think Pentax was a little foolish to
leave off (unless it was a condition of their use of that camera chassis at
the same time as Nikon), but otherwise the bodies are virtually the same.
Also, whether or not the Pentax version's optics are any better could be up
for debate, since it doesn't specify SMC on the lens. That would lead me to
suspect that Pentax has very little to do with the manufacturing of this
camera's body and lens, and that they simply supply the electronic guts to
the OEM manufacturer for assembly. I'm slightly disappointed, but if it
turns out to be a good camera then it won't really matter. I've already
recommended it to my dad.
John
Pentax may not even be supplying the internal electronics.
Sensor-shift stabilization is common in the P&S world. It's more
likely that Nikon is supplying the lens stabilization unit for the P90
and Pentax is relying on the OEM. It's clearly the same sensor in the
P90 and X70.
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