Originally posted by BobL Why oh why can Pentax not get it right.......16.5 MP, 2/3rds Sensor, when I ask are they going to make a camera with professional standing, full frame 22 MP.
Were I entering the market at this time I'm afraid I'd be going Canon. Scarry thought for a dedicated Pentax Man, but as a professsional photographer my competitors have the edge over me with high end equipment.
I have a whole bag full of lovely Pentax & Sigma lenses ranging from 10mm to 500mm & yet can't buy a body over currently 15 MP......come on Pentax, get with the Pro market & give us a camera worthy of the Pentax brand. Until then I'll have to stick with my 2 K20 D bodies. because it's just not worth an upgrade for 1.5 MP. I totally skipped the K7 despite being given one to play with for 3 weeks, a not worth changing battery packs & accessories for.
I keep hoping that Pentax will come up with something to rival Canon, but they always seem to trail the market.
Originally posted by MickB You know the D700 'only' has 12MP right?
And the D3, probably the most used cameras among Nikon pros, and the D3s, one of the most technically advanced cameras at the moment. And then there's the 1DmkIV, which is as pro as it gets and isn't even FF. Then there's Bob Krist, one of the most renowned pro travel photographers, who almost purely uses aps-c because it's smaller and he thinks FF doens't off enough of an advantage to justify the size increase.
I hate how much everyone thinks pros NEED FF, and how pros NEED lots of MP's, and pros NEED super-clean, mega-high ISO's. When the reality is that all of these things are relatively new. There have only been how many FF DSLRs in existence before the 5DmkII? I don't know, ten or so by my count. And yet every one acts like that's the only way DSLR's have ever been, and that anything else is a gross deviation from the norm. Three years ago, 15 MP's was alot, and yet people treat it like it's this arcane technology from the dark ages that isn't even worth considering. It wasn't long ago that digital ISO400 looked like garbage, and yet people act like anything less than crystal clear 6400 is worthless.
The bottom line, as has already been pointed out, is that the vast minority of pros actually use FF. And furthermore, thanks to the 5DmkII and the D700, the vast minority of FF owners are in fact pros. I see more mkII's and D700's in the hands of amateurs than in the hands of pros. And guess who the ones are constantly complaining about needing more MP's and better high ISO. Not the pros.