On 4 February 2013 14:21, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It's hard to be competitive when producing in the low volumes Pentax
> does. Most everybody wants a bargain and Pentax is viewed by many as
> the bargain brand, yet Pentax's per unit costs must trend higher than
> competitors because their volume is a mere fraction of, for example
> Nikon. That means per unit profit will tend to be lower. Add to that
> the aforementioned tendency of many Pentax users to 'wait until the
> price drops' and you can see the struggle they face.
>
> I expect that they'll need to produce a FF camera, regardless of
> profit margins, otherwise even their most die-hard proponents would
> have a hard time taking them seriously.
Funny, but I don't take them seriously for a whole 'nother reason.
> Blah, blah, blah (all said before).
Horse is dead and redead by flogging.
> I'm sure whatever they produce will be competent. Then the question
> becomes will they have the lenses to complement the increased
> resolution on a FF digital sensor? Right now there's nothing empiric
> to know how their best FF legacy lenses will work on a FF sensor. No
> doubt 'good enough' for web and smaller prints. So, following the way
> of APS-C and FF competitors, a new body will prompt many to purchase
> new, as of now, theoretical lenses.
You mean increased resolution compared to film? In any case, if legacy
lenses can withstand a K-5 sensor, they can withstand a 36MP FF
sensor, and most of them perform just fine resolution wise on the K-5.
> If that's true, then the question is, if I need new lenses to make the
> most out of the new body vs. accepting the likely limitations of
> legacy lenses, is there much difference between staying with Pentax
> and changing systems all together? Especially so, considering the
> glacial slowness at which they seem to be moving.
Blah, blah, blah. Look Tom, you ALWAYS need new lenses; stop trying to
justify your habit to us, we're friends, we know the pain.
> I'm not anti-Pentax, simply pro-reality,
MAAAAARK!!!!!
> wanting what I want in this
> lifetime and as far this side of the finish line as possible.
I wonder which one of us will have to wait longer, and which one of us
will have the most time before the finish line...
Here's to optimism!
—M.
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