True, but at a price, $800 more or ~$1500 with a the kit zoom. All such
decisions are a trade off. I think Pentax has to announce a 24x36mm
sensor camera pretty soon, and it's price will have to be in the $2000
range. I suspect they may have planning to do that with a 24mp sensor
but for about 3K. Then they found out about the Nikon and decided to
retool the idea, (less embarising to do that before making your new
camera public, rather than after, MZ-D anyone). As I said, I expect an
announcement just in time to miss the Christmas buying season, after all
they've done that before. Of course it might not be a FF camera it
might be a 24mp APS-C camera, but either way the megapixel race is still
on.
I'm surprised that they didn't actually announce a 645Dn with higher
frame rate or more pixels or both. Right now they sit between the low
end MF backs and Canon and Nikons FF offerings, with fewer new lenses on
offer, being squeezed by both sides. And with the cost of their new DFA
glass for 645D being in the low stratosphere well there seems to be an
issue.
On 9/14/2012 8:36 PM, Luka Knezevic-Strika wrote:
well, the thing is, nikon will almost definitely have a significant
real-world advantage in low-light/high-iso...
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
I doubt that a lack of a competitive 24 x 36 camera will lead to immediate
defections over the holiday buying season, although it might cost Pentax some
sales to impressionable newbies. The Nikon certainly wouldn't interest me if it
couldn't equal the low-light performance of the K-5. If the K-5 II matches the
noise performance of the K-5 with much better autofocus, it will get some
excellent reviews, and it will sell. Their are already some preliminary
whispers of praise for the filter-free version. Pentaxians have fixated on
frame dimension because they don't have a big one. I suspect that much of the
rest of the world doesn't care.
Paul
On Sep 14, 2012, at 6:12 PM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:
M,
Once Nikon is out with their compact, full frame camera,
Pentax will need to announce something to stem the defections
over the holiday buying season.
Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Miserere <[email protected]> wrote:
Seriously:
http://photo.net/pentax-camera-forum/00anEI?start=10
Read the 2nd post from the top, by Garry Ian Young.
:-)
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