Originally posted by ozlizard Image quality will always win over speed in my book.
What do most photographer shoot? Landscapes, sports, studio, family snaps?
Well with Pentax it surely isn't sports as a main goal for their camera. When image quality is your goal then the APS-H camera will beat the APS-C camera!
Originally posted by Digitalis The last camera to use APS-H sensor was the Canon 1D Mk IV. Canon abandoned APS-H in favour of FX format in order to compete with the Nikon D4.
I agree, it will take some serious improvements before pentax comes out with a camera that is even close to being able to perform as quickly as the Canon 1D Mk IV. My old 1D MKIIn is quicker than my K5IIs in certain areas.
Well I guess that both 1Dx and D4 are not the camera's to compete with for Pentax. A new camera with APS-H sensor should compete with Canon 7D (Mark II maybe) and the new D400 (if that ever comes) alongside with the entry level FF camera's D600 and 6D. So it should bring top quality in image and be equiped to take on to the options that toptier APS-C camera's offer.
Originally posted by ogl Who is APS-H? APS-H is dead, baby, APS-H is dead...
It's only dead if want it. There are now plenty off sensors in different sizes in the market to make it an option to use a large APS-H sized sensor:
Sensorsize comparison:
http://j.mp/WFPAVy
I'm very satisfied with the pixelamount in the K-5 II(s) so that would be enough pixels. Cut the sensor from the same wafer as the D600 and you get a large APS-H sized sensor (4928x3264 pixels) 29,57mm x 19,58mm and that is a crop of 1,218! So a bit larger then the APS-H sensor in the Canon's.
- Less stressing on cornerperformance for old lenses.
- More usable DA-lenses (maybe some still need the DX-format).
- The cropping giving nature- and birdingphotographers some advantage.
- smaller DNG-files, since there are 16mp instead off 24/36 wich give huge files.
- smaller camerabody (just a little, but it does count).
- No problems to put SR in the body.