I think the specifications I read on it said equivalent to 17mm but you
know it's Pentax so they could have meant 17mm on APS-C...
On 8/21/2012 11:41 PM, Boris Liberman wrote:
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...
Boris
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