On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:39 PM, <27...@comcast.net> wrote: > Well I am glad that my NOISE post is still alive. It is bad that Pentax did > not make a better sensor for the K7. If they could do it in the KX, why not > the K7. I guess the money issue (make more money with the K7 first and then > bring out the KX and by this time most people have already bought the K7 and > so now they will buy the KX.
Pentax used a brand new sensor for the K-x, which Sony introduced later (the A500 is the only other camera using the new 12MP part, it was announced 3 weeks before the K-x but shipped 2 months afterwards). The K-7 was announced 5 months earlier than the K-x when the two new Sony sensors were not yet available and there's good reason to believe the K-7's launch had been pushed back from PMA, some 8 months before the K-x showed up. Nikon's D5000, released midway between the K-7 and K-x even uses the older version of the K-x sensor and Nikon most likely had first dibs on the part. Pentax could have used the older Sony 12MP sensor that the K-x sensor was derived from, but then the K-7's noise performance would have been about a stop worse than the K-x anyways and it would have been a spec downgrade from the K20D. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
