Peter, Don't base your decision on photographs posted on the web, even if they are on the Pentax website. Were those photos taken by a talented photographer or by an engineer who just stepped out in his lunchbreak to test "this thingy" he had spent 12 months designing the circuitry for?
I have ZERO doubt the IQ of the K-7 at low ISOs is going to be top quality (as is the case for every DSLR on the market nowadays). My only questions relate to how the high ISO IQ is going to be and if the AF has really improved. None of these questions can be answered by pictures on the internet. I need to use the camera myself in order to asses AF performance, and take pictures at high ISO in familiar environments (and then process the RAW files myself) in order to tell whether the K-7 is an improvement over my K10D. Let's just wait until we have a final production model in hand to play with, and then we can make an informed decision. Cheers, --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://enticingthelight.wordpress.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2009/5/21 Peter Zalabai <[email protected]>: > 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 > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
