Ken,
I wholeheartedly agree with you that if there is an issue with a camera or lens that we should discuss it, whether it is the less than stellar performance of Pentax AF or CA in some Tamron lenses….absolutely, lets discuss and be informed.
Lets no run off with posts of “Emerging Issue” when it is only two people.
Some people are “Glass half full” and others are “glass half empty”
One thing I do know is “mob mentality“, even the most reserved of people in a mob environment can get carried away.
A perfect example is ask any Canon or Nikon guy what he thinks of Pentax. Half of them will have never even handled one but will say that the AF is bad. No! AF is not bad it is excellent in good light, in low light it slows down…yes. But bad…No!
Once the common Mob Mentality of “Pentax AF is bad” starts, no matter what we do we will still face the uninformed.
Yeah sure, during testing of a camera, I will admit that some tests will be more extreme than the average person will encounter whilst taking photos. But can you imagine if when LV is used some people got some HP, suddenly the wonderful Samsung 14.6mp CMOS sensor is “Oh that’s crap is has Hot pixel issues, here, check out this new Canon camera”.
The sensor is fine. We have all seen the pictures with it. I have used LV heaps of times whilst playing around with manual focus lenses and so forth and I can guarantee 99% of Pentax users have tried all the little bells and whistles on their new K20Ds, including LV.
Have we seen ANY posts form our thousands of users around the world? No!
Just two people, two reviewers, have made comment and suddenly it is an “Emerging Issue”, suddenly the mob gathers and soon we will be defending our K20Ds against uninformed people over something that 2 people have started.
The VPN one was also an issue for some, a small some that pushed their camera’s abilities. You will find heaps of threads on VPN on the K10D, the average person will never encounter it… EVER
I would hate to see the K20D tarnished over a spurious comment by a reviewer that no-one else has encountered.
Yes let us wait and see under what conditions these apparently occur and lets wait and see if it is an issue before we all start rounding up the mob to lynch the Samsung CMOS sensor is al I am saying.
For those who know my normal posts, you can tell I have had a crap week, sorry.
The tally stands at 3 users with Hot Pixels. For those with this, can someone post a picture so we can see what is the "Issue!" Please.
PK
Addendum:
I did some testing.
Live View 30 mins wandering about shooting different things and then went pixel peeping, not my favoutire pastime.
WoW!
2 Hot Pixels out of 14.6 MILLION, one permanent and one that appears after about 5 mins of live view.
Ran Pixel mapping in camera. Run the test again Live View including lens cap on shots as well just for fun at ISO 800, ISO 100 and ISO 1600.
NOTHING!!!!!
Seriously, Whatever cameras they have for testing have to have a fault and not a common one as you cannot help but see those dots all over the images on the polish site. Looks like metal flake paintwork.