Originally posted by reh321 If you wanted to upgrade the image you were getting, you could start using a new sensor {film}. These days the utility / variability we got from film is packaged in the body.
True, but I think that picture quality from modern day sensors is and has been pretty good for a number of years. I still use my old K10D (bought 2007) and the picture quality is excellent. My K5 and K1 make for excellent picture quality. I really don't go over 11 X 14 and that size is rare for me, mostly I'm at 5 X 7 and 8 X 10 with the pictures I develop for wall hangers or albums.
I don't know if my picture sizes are much different from the norm for here in this forum. I can do more things with my K5, than my K10D and more things with my K1, than with my K5...but as far as the quality of picture goes between these three bodies at up to the 8 X 10, possibly the 11 X 14...I'm hard pressed to tell the difference. I can tell the difference, but only because I can usually remember for the most part, where and when I took a particular picture.
Do I need a K5 or a K1, when I have a K10D ? I dunno, probably not. My K5 certainly has advantages over my K5 and I think I could of stayed with the K5 without getting the K1. But I got the K5 and K1 because I simply wanted them. Did I need the 5 and the 1...no I didn't need them...it was want.
So as long as I'm not blowing up pictures to mural size, my K10D would in most instances...suffice. The K10D sensor was and is pretty darn good.