Originally posted by LamyTax No, it's not, the DOF is different. Crop factor also applies to f-stops.
No it doesn't. It's just a tweaked APS-C model. Like I said, a crop factor has advantages. Go shoot birds with a Q and you'll find out.
Pentax could as well release one to two FF bodies in the next years and then suddenly have a more complete range of bodies than Canon/Nikon
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Possibly, but how are to going to suceed with such an approach with a markedshare around 5%? Pentax problem isn't that they don't have great products; their problem is how to sell them; distibution, marketing. Q, APS, FF, 645 and associated lenses (particularly a combination of high-end APS glass + high- and low-end FF glass is particularly challenging) must be a marketing nightmare as all these products except for the 645 needs volume to be viable.
If Pentax APS (24mp), FF (24mp) and 645 (40mp) gets too close to one another many Pentax users will have a hard time deciding which one to buy (at least I would
). I don't think Pentax have the user base to have several different high-end cameras, not to mention lenses.
It will be interesting to see whether the 24mp is FF or APS. I do think that this is very telling for Pentax K-mount future. Photokina this year will be very important for Pentax.
The price of that 24mp Sony FF sensor is also very interesting and probably decides how viable a Pentax FF camera is at present. Nothing from the A99 rumored specs list suggest an obvious low price however...