> I was reacting to the word "leapfrogs" in Bill's post. I know you were. The thing that, frankly, bugs me the most about your criticisms, in particular, is that they come from someone who has no personal experience with Pentax bodies since the K-7. What you cannot know, from personal experience, is that Pentax "leapfrogged" the competition in the APS-C world, in the metric that is important to most people (Image Quality, even at higher ISOs) when they introduced the K-5. In your mind, apparently it didn't happen. In fact, it has been only relatively recently that anything APS-C has even come close to SURPASSING it. And as they do, Pentax appears to be raising the bar yet again with the K-3. (I'm not one of those people who just has to have the latest/greatest of everything, but I'm happy to see that after their ownership change and all of the wondering by the Pentax faithful that the company "answers the bell" with so strong of a product - according to the specs.
I realize it remains to be seen if the K-3 delivers on what its specs promise, but if you can name another APS-C camera ( that has been announced today) that comes out in front of the K-3 even if only in specs, I think we'd all love to hear it. If you can't then the K-3 will become the APS-C front-runner. It will have gotten there by leapfrogging the competition. Nothing wrong (at all) with Bill's choice of words and thus nothing to react to, unless you have a (severely dull) axe to grind. Aside: If the switchable AA filter thing works as intended, it will be something that Nikon and Canon *can't* easily replicate - since they don't have sensor movement as part of their current design. Sony might, some day. I sincerely hope you are happy with your D800E and your Sony NEX-7. They are both fine cameras and I understand your rationale for choosing them (very valid, IMHO). But what I truly don't get is why it makes you happy to urinate in the Cheerios of those who still like Pentax products. What does that do for you? More than anybody on this list, I'm sure that I've gained the most from your leaving Pentax for Nikon/Sony. I've gained your Bigma, your DA 16-45mm, and a BG-4 grip. I'm much obliged. -- 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.
