From: Larry Colen
On Feb 3, 2013, at 10:17 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: David J Brooks
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM, David Savage
<[email protected]> wrote:
G'day All,
Just popping back in to PDML land to see whats up.
Anything new happening? A new FF Pentax on the horizon (with
hat sauce for Cotty).
Apparently Pentax Forums is reporting a leaked memo that there is
one in the works. But the source......... I myself am still eying
the D600 at the moment
Dave
I've been looking at it too. It doesn't have a couple of things
Pentax does that I'd like to keep, but Pentax needs to move ahead
expeditiously toward getting a full frame body to market.
There are a couple of problems with the D600. First of all it seems
that for about the first 3,000 shutter actuations it splatters
something onto the sensor that needs to be cleaned off. It also
falls down in low light focus. In an informal test with similar
lenses it was unable to lock focus on a scene that my K-5 was.
But, damn! If I had a couple thousand dollars burning a hole in my
pocket, I'd be very tempted.
That's kind of where I am right now. I think Pentax should be able to
deliver a camera with all the good things the D600 has PLUS the good
things the K-5 is able to do at a competitive price.
The D600 only looks attractive to the extent I can't get the full-frame
DSLR I want from Pentax.
I don't expect to buy a D600. But if Pentax doesn't get off the dime, I
expect I will be buying whatever camera Nikon brings out to replace the
D600.
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