Larry, your sentence is incomplete. Let me try and do it for you - "Pentax is doomed - to lead the Pentax life" or "Pentax is doomed - to be Pentax forever"... Something like that.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:02:12PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: >> P.J. Alling wrote: >> >> >Really, I expected a 24mp sensor >> >> I didn't expect it, nor do I want it. The Nikon D800 is notoriously >> finicky about needing only top-quality, premium glass to take >> advantage of its resolution and putting 24 megapixels into an APS-C >> area results in even greater pixel density than that. I'll stick to >> full-frame for those kind of pixel counts (in fact, I'd have preferred >> if they'd kept it at 16 MP, though I understand the marketing reasons >> why they didn't). >> >> If the dual card slots are SD and CF I might even be interested in >> this camera (if all this is really true) but I expect they'll be two >> SD slots. > > Face it. We're all interested in it. > > It will come out with some interesting new features, but sensor performance > will not be much improved over the K-5. There will be wailing and moaning > and gnashing of teeth. > 1) It isn't full frame. Pentax is doomed. > 2) The sensor performance isn't significantly improved, so it's not > that much better than any other APS body, and several FF cameras out > score it on DxO. Pentax is doomed. > 3) The new features it has are not the ones I want. Pentax is doomed. > 4) Some small, but significant number of people will buy cameras that > have a manufacturing defect that is rare enough that it wasn't > detected in the prototypes. Many other people will imagine that their > camera has this defect. Pentax is doomed. > 5) Meanwhile, several people on the list will buy it, and while it > won't be perfect, they will decide that it is a significant improvement > in usability over the K-5. They will be able to get a small, > but significant number of shots that they otherwise would have missed > with the K-5 family. However, the quality of their work will not > make a sudden but substantial improvement. Pentax is doomed. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
