On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:50 AM, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> That they would, but even better would be a K-7x with the K-x >> processing chain and either the K-x's 12MP sensor or Sony's closely >> related 14.6MP sensor. I'm seriously hoping we're going to see that >> soon (perhaps for Photokina?). >> >> I'd really love to have the K-x's IQ with the K-7's metering and AF >> (metering in particular is a weak point of the K-x). >> > > I'm not so sure I'd want that. The K7 seems to have better detail rendering > than the Kx at low to moderate ISO. Good low light performance is a nice > plus, but for most work it's secondary. > > Paul > >
That's most likely due to the extra pixels, which I'd expect Pentax to keep (the Sony 14.6MP CMOS sensor resolves better than the 12MP sensor and is almost as good for high ISO's, so I think it likely that a K-7x would have that sensor rather than the 12MP one in the K-x). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
