Originally posted by monochrome You make a really important point.
It seems Pentax isn't (at this time) aggressively competing for Sports Indoor, where fast is a requirement. Pentax seems to say over and over they make 'Field Cameras' which I assume means they optimize for small size and to shoot Landscape. Stands to reason if I have to lug gear in a backpack to a location I'd want smaller and lighter, assuming my final IQ is comparative.
I think many of our users' complaints about shortcomings occur because Pentax has chosen a narrow, discrete niche to exploit.
Not sure what "field camera" really means since most pics from all cameras are likely taken outside anyway? And if landscape photography is the main course on the Pentax menu then which lenses do they have in mind?
I saw a nice old vintage advert from Pentax earlier today - "David Bailey's Pentax - Your Pentax becomes part of you". 1960s? But very effective, I thought.
See here. Anyway, it speaks much more directly than a rather vague term like "field camera". (This was at the superb exhibition of Bailey's work throughout his life at the London National Portrait Gallery, Bailey's Stardust, which I recommended to anyone if you get the chance to see it. Black and white images, mostly, to die for.)
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