On 8/21/2012 6:56 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
Another thing that would be a handy firmware introduction (for all Pentax AF cameras) would be a button that could be programmed to focus any AF lens to hyperfocal distance and then read out the min/max distances on the LCD.
My Ricoh GXR has it. It is called "snap focus". You can even choose from several distances of "snap focus". And it also has separate "infinity focus" option.
If nothing else, this gives me greater hope that Q development is alive and well (not abandoned). The more megapixels you put on that size of a sensor the more sensitive it is going to be to CA. You either have to deal with that in post (for RAW) or maybe Pentax is working on a way to correct for it in-camera like they have for the noise issue of the smaller sensor. Not smoking anything. Just high on Pentax Life, friends! : )
Not to burst your bubble, Darren, but I am afraid you're quite wrong. IMVHO, this new camera is totally "me too" run of the mill effort from Pentax. They has few such cameras before and now they bring yet another one. I strongly doubt that being 4 mm FL at wide end it will have 4x sensor. More likely 7x sensor or 6x sensor so that it will turn out to be more earthly 24 mm or 28 mm on the wide end.
Again, it seems to me like a big waste of time and effort on Pentax part. This market seems to be very much saturated by offerings from Panasonic, Canon and others so that to really penetrate it Pentax would have to sweat its marketing muscle, which as I was told here is not very strong. And obviously X-5 will have to be nothing short of outstanding to begin with.
Diversity is good, but if you diversify between X-5, Q, WP series and K-01, you may have overstretched it... Ricoh has/had a series of very good compact cameras, why not to capitalize on that. Add to their well thought interface, ergonomics and excellent optics Pentax's WP know-how and you get yourself something that I think is easier to market than X-5...
As of recently Pentax does not impress me. I hope that this autumn will bring better news than X-5 or Q...
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