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.
