Originally posted by ogl Why so much conceit and snobbery???
We just dream and communicate here and nothing else...
Do you work for HOYA?
Or do you have any psychologic problems?
There are several FF threads here and nobody suffer from it...
If we have a look at last HOYA's actions - it's easy to see that
K-5 is just K-7 super, 645D has menus close to K-7, the same battery and e.t.c.
If HOYA knows, where is FF?
And I don't ask you to say your opinion about this thread...
If you have nothing to say, why do you write here?
Are you squabbler?
Wow, ogl throwing insults - that's something new. NOT! What's next, calling me a Romanian gypsy?
The truth is, you don't have any clue about designing a camera. You can insult me as much as you'd like (and as much as the moderators will allow you), but you can't change this fact.
Even by calling the K-5 "just K-7 super" shows how clueless you are. Nope, there were most likely some extensive changes. Obviously, the sensor and sensor-related circuits. The AF system, completely redesigned. The mirror now must cope with the 7fps, probably they also had to tweak it (more importantly,not the mirror itself but the sequence mechanisms). The software also had gone through some extensive changes.
This had to be tested, tweaked and tested to death. No, it's not easy at all to make a camera; that's why there are only a handful camera makers, and not thousands of them. One should not try to diminish the effort those engineers are putting into such products. You're insisting on the similarities, but how about the differences?
Yes, Hoya/Pentax knows exactly what making a camera means; are you saying they don't, and they need to be told by
you?
Of course, having knowledge about this doesn't mean they will make (launch to market) the product itself. But maybe someone thinks that, by starting a stupid thread everything's solved
Btw, there is another big logic error in here. Pentax must
not, under no circumstance, make the cheapest "FF" - it'll flop. They should make the kind of "FF" that makes sense for them (yes, that means making a profit), when/if it makes sense for them.
And we all know that, if such a camera appears, our Siberian friend won't buy one.