Peter,
I just wanted to add that Pentax has a well-established tradition of putting
crap pictures as "quality" samples in their Japanese website. I'm not
worried at all by seeing that stuff and I'm confident the K-7 will give a
much much higher IQ when properly handled.
Dario
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From: "Peter Zalabai" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:53 PM
Subject: Oh another K-7 thread...
Hi list,
Sorry for opening a new K-7 thread... I just tought to share my thoughts
with you...
So... K-7. When I first saw the pictures it was a beauty for me. The first
thing that crossed my mind is "I MUST HAVE ONE" (yeah with all-caps :D).
The K-7 is a very nice and very stylish camera and it brings back the old
style when engineers designed machines with ruler and bows. Personally I
dislike the now trendy 'everything is rounded' style that rules the
designs nowadays (cars, computers, phones etc). But, oh-well, Nikon has
quite similar design with D3 and D700, so it's not that unique, yet Pentax
made it much more stylish than Nikon (IMHO).
Then as the first set of so-called-specifications came the K-7 was still a
promising camera. 1/250 Synch and 1/8000 Shutter, Better AF, HD-Video, AF
Assist light, etc. All in all the K-7 was the nice big red balloon that
everyone wants :)
But as time passed by the specifications turned to be false or
not-that-nice. 1/250 went back to 1/180, Better AF -like the sensor- is
just an Improved (but same) SAFOX VII, HD-Video is "only" 720 lines and
motion JPEG...
And now the test shots on the official page... Terrible. First the girl...
totally lacks sharpness for me and well the dynamic range of the photo
seems to me not that awesome. Then same applies to almost all shots. And
in the end the last shot made with the 12-24. Terrible CA. One of the new
features is the CA correction and this how they market it?
So all in all I am very disappointed with the K-7 as the "new" flagship
model. It's nothing more just the K20D with a class-closing (or how should
I call the opposite of class leading? :D) HD video feature and tweaked
features. The nice big red balloon seems to be popped out...
But don't get me wrong... I still love the K20D and the Pentax Side of
Life :)
Regards,
.timber
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