Originally posted by slip So far they sound like Hoya...lots of smoke and mirrors. If they want to compete they can't keep giving us what is essentially warmed over products. It's been too long since they introduced a truely innovative product.
No bashing, just see what I see
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Randy
How? They haven't even had a chance to really take over Pentax yet. It's so early, no one knows either way.
And as far as the "innovation" goes, aside from the 70D, what else has anyone introduced that's been innovative? Apparently, the family of sensors in the K-5 is still valid in today's market, as even Sony is using them, still, with good results. It was apparently several generations ahead of its time for still performance. The D7100 is debatable. The D600 and 800 are ok, but mostly MP monsters. However, they are making that move for pro/studio work, as well as for motion picture studios.
The 5DIII? Warmed over 5DII. Still an industry standard, but not much innovation there. The only innovation in the industry has been the 70D, certain Sonys, a couple of those Fujis (mostly innovative marketing to backup reasonably good performance and vision). I even find the Ricoh GRD innovative. Not groundbreaking, but to put such optical quality together is rather innovative, especially seeing what Nikon did with their chance.