On 14/04/2010, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, so we're all having fun with the inexpensive little Pentax that > has this annoying habit of producing fine images. Why is that? Is > the sensor and electronics that much better? I'm just curious. It's > been a while since one of the low end cameras caused such a fuss. > (The colors have been an amusing touch as well.)
It's actually just a pretty decent camera, a combination of physical and performance attributes that make producing a decent image easy and fun. I'll probably get roasted for the following but I think that the decision Pentax took to go with the Samsung sensors in the later DSLRs was a poor one, maybe it got them out of potential insolvency but honestly their image quality was not comparable to the competition. It's such a pity that the K7 doesn't contain better sensor (mainly from and DR, noise and sensitivity perspective), it would really be quite an impressive camera then. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
