K-3 ban on commenting on image quality

2013-10-13 Thread J.C. O'Connell
seems weird to me that pentax is telling all those handling the pre-production samples of the cameras not to comment on the image quality of the cameras at such a late date. Are they expecting some miracle firmware to come in an save the day at the last second? Could there be a fly in the

Re: K-3 ban on commenting on image quality

2013-10-13 Thread Zos Xavius
I'm wondering the same thing myself. A lot of people are concerned with shadow noise and banding. Its actually pretty normal for companies to prevent people from saving images on preproduction cameras, but I don't know why people aren't allowed to talk about IQ. I'm just patiently waiting for

Re: K-3 ban on commenting on image quality

2013-10-13 Thread Bill
On 13/10/2013 12:47 AM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: seems weird to me that pentax is telling all those handling the pre-production samples of the cameras not to comment on the image quality of the cameras at such a late date. Are they expecting some miracle firmware to come in an save the day at the

Re: K-3 ban on commenting on image quality

2013-10-13 Thread Boris Liberman
To me it makes perfect sense. Until product is fully out, it makes absolutely no sense to publish any samples. Not once and not twice such disclosure had produced very untoward effects to gear makers. On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/10/2013 12:47

Re: K-3 ban on commenting on image quality

2013-10-13 Thread Darren Addy
I think it is an interesting question. While one site said that Pentax/Ricoh did not want images produced from pre-production firmware, it is obvious from the official samples that they do have v1.00 firmware (although it may not be the version installed on the pre-production cameras). I tend to

Re: K-3 ban on commenting on image quality

2013-10-13 Thread George Sinos
I was listening to the This Week In Photography podcast yesterday. The K3 was mentioned in the news section and discussed a bit. Derrick Story was very positive about Pentax. He said he had been given a K-2 for review. I think he meant K-7, because he mentioned it in earlier blog posts.