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03-23-2013, 09:59 PM   #1381
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QuoteOriginally posted by bossa Quote
Actually I think it'd be 52 or 54MP.
Bring it on, Pentax!

After using a Sony RX-100 for a while as a point-and-shoot, I am starting to like lots of [reasonable quality] megapickles. The extra cropping potential alone certainly comes in handy, and as DxO notes, extra megapixels can indeed help you disguise pixel noise.

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What is most important to you.. MP or ISO? I personally like having higher ISO and think Pentax should stay with a 16MP sensor. Unless they can somehow keep a high ISO at 24MP???
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Is there any chance that Svitek is trolling us...
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I think we have agreed on that ogl. The other thread was closed as a result. Now let's move on from this and talk about what the K-3 will *really* be like. 24Mp APS-C is much more plausible that a 24Mp FF, but let's just wait for April to come along and reveal all.

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It seems to me, K-3 is APS-C camera and
24-120/4 is DA16-80/4 in reality....I'd like to be wrong.

Svitek said that 24-120 is like 18-135 optically.
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24-120 is like 18-135 optically
They will [hopefully] have to do better than that. Those soft edges...FF would just amplify that 18-135 problem.
Disclaimer: I have the 18-135 and think it is quite usable IRL. But optically it is not at all as good as my older SMC A 35-105/3.5 - that's the direction Pentax needs to go.
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Unless they can somehow keep a high ISO at 24MP???
Judging from the Nikon D7100, maybe yes.
But high MP can balance out slightly noisy high ISO, especially when doing real-world stuff like printing images.

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What is most important to you.. MP or ISO? I personally like having higher ISO and think Pentax should stay with a 16MP sensor. Unless they can somehow keep a high ISO at 24MP???
That's why I think keeping the pixel density of the k-5 for great high iso performance, and increasing sensor size to APS-H to get 24MP and the resolution it will bring will be the best of all worlds.
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What is most important to you.. MP or ISO? I personally like having higher ISO and think Pentax should stay with a 16MP sensor. Unless they can somehow keep a high ISO at 24MP???
The new generation of 24MP has equivalent noise to the 16MP, assuming you post-process.
If history is a guide, Pentax would be using the same sensor as that 'new generation', just a year later than everyone else.
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The K-5 was announced pretty much simultaneously with the D7000, and less than a month away from A580 and A55.
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QuoteOriginally posted by rawr Quote
But optically it is not at all as good as my older SMC A 35-105/3.5 - that's the direction Pentax needs to go.
Perhaps, but (from my experience) that was
  1. a near exceptional lens as a relatively consumer-oriented ZOOM went, and
  2. exceptionally heavy as a result of all the glass that made it 1.
I'd be happy if Pentax could do that again but it would probably require a lens design breakthrough. Otherwise it might not actually be all that well received in the modern world. Technically, turning enough glass under the current autofocus demands might be a real technical challenge.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Kunzite Quote
The K-5 was announced pretty much simultaneously with the D7000, and less than a month away from A580 and A55.
I'm sorry - I didn't mean that history has always shown that Pentax gets a sensor a year after everyone else.

I meant that history has shown that Pentax uses the same sensor as someone else.

In this case it could be a year (give or take) after someone else, depending on which sensor we're talking about... but no sensor is 'new'.
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But the Sony A-mount is just the old Minolta AF mount, right? Like the K-mount, designed to cover 35mm film. Or don't Minolta AF lenses work with SR on a Sony SLR?

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Please regard this question:
Why is the image circle of Sony's FF A-mount lenses larger then the FF image circle?

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To accomodate the sensor movement of the large FF sensor. That is exactly the same reason why DA lenses have an image circle larger then the required APS-C image circle.
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QuoteOriginally posted by ElJamoquio Quote
I'm sorry - I didn't mean that history has always shown that Pentax gets a sensor a year after everyone else.

I meant that history has shown that Pentax uses the same sensor as someone else.

In this case it could be a year (give or take) after someone else, depending on which sensor we're talking about... but no sensor is 'new'.
But even that is not necessarily true. At some point - and you know it very well - they used a Samsung sensor.

In other words, the history has shown Pentax can either use a sensor one year later that their competitors, a sensor simultaneously with their competitors, or a different sensor.
However, for the next K-mount cameras I doubt they'll use a different sensor.
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QuoteOriginally posted by ElJamoquio Quote
The new generation of 24MP has equivalent noise to the 16MP, assuming you post-process.
If history is a guide, Pentax would be using the same sensor as that 'new generation', just a year later than everyone else.
Based upon my views of the studio comparison shots on dpreview, and comparing k5 to d7100 to d600, it seems that the k-5 sony sensor has better high ISO performance than the 24MP toshiba sensor in the d7100,
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