First of all I don’t know if this part of the forum is right or wrong since this is not a rumor nor news. It’s something I think will make the ultimate entry level Pro DSLR and in my opinion a D300 killer.
Building on the new K20D’ sensor with some tweaks if available in the future;
Totally updated autofocus system in a state of the art form;
Hires LCD, not necessarily 3” maybe a screen mobile this time. Maintain the color calibration functions (real nice touch, Pentax!);
More power for the battery (always a good thing IMHO);
Edit: at least 1/8000 shutter speed, at least 1/250 flash sync speed.
A real connection with a PC (that maybe available in K20D as we speak thru remote assistant) for studio and product shooting;
And now for the grand finale we need a solution for the 3 fps “plague” –btw for me is enough in K20D but will not be enough in a semi Pro DSLR. We need to take into consideration the size of a RAW file and even light compressed JPEG. We all know that Samsung is the leader (or at least a very important player) in flash memory technology. So, why not integrate in the electronics a very hi speed 1-2-4 GB of flash to act as a buffer between the RAM and the SD card? With the prices of flash falling and the speed rising every day I think this solution can ultimately provide maximum speed of the shutter system until the SD card is full (and this in RAW nevertheless). I count on the fact that a form of internal HDD SSD type will always be faster than a SD card.
So, in summary all we need is for Pentax and Samsung to focus on the electronics and I believe that a 14,6 Mp / 8-10 frames/second – no buffer limit is possible.
And in the mean time please Hoya focus on more and better lenses (I mean “higher class glass” – maybe longer primes?) and we will have a Pentax system which can hold its own to the C and N in almost every sense of the word.
My 2 cents worth of flash memory
Radu
Last edited by RaduA; 01-26-2008 at 10:30 AM.