Quote: Price. Pentax can't charge the premium required for the 36mp FF sensor, especially considering it only has a handful (literally) of FF lenses to go with it.
Oh get outta town. If Nikon can get one out for 3k, Pentax can get one out for 3k. You can't say Pentax users won't pay 3 k for an FF. Lot's already have, and lots more are considering it. The price of 35 MP sensors will continue to come down, just as every other sensor has. As soon as one company gets it, sooner or later they all get it. The price of Pentax glass for their FF's will be seriously offset by the fact that many of those lenses will also be used by APS-c shooters. Plus Pentax has a huge number of viable lens patents that can be altered for SDM and brought into production very quickly if need be. For example if Pentax came out with a digital remake of their FA 80-200 2.8 in FF, I'd buy it for my APS-c camera, even if I didn't go for an FF. They are in a way better position to release top quality glass than any company that has to develop all new glass. And there are lot's of those.
Have you even looked at 24 Mp images compared to the k-5 images blown up to 24 MP? Or are you one of those who think more MP without added detail is some kind of advantage, because I would argue it's a disavantage. Larger files mean longer processing times on my computer and more need for file space on my hard drive. Just based on my own brief research, it's D800 (or equivalent) or nothing. I've yet to find an IQ advantage I'd pay for looking at other systems. Take out the "I'd pay for"... I've yet to find an advantage...period. In many cases the K-5 IIs images look better for at least part of the comparison image.
If you want 24 MP just put your images in photoshop and blow them up to 24 MP. You've got it. For printing I blow mine up to 66 MP, 10,000 x 6,600 pixels because that's what my printer wants. That doesn't mean my pictures would be better if I had a camera that produced an image that size. The images from my k-5 come out just fine. (So do the images from my 10 MP Optio W80.)
Last edited by normhead; 11-25-2012 at 09:19 AM.