Originally posted by ElJamoquio I thought the K-5 got great reviews. 35mm Limited was called the best lens ever by some reviewer. Etc, etc, etc. Photozone is pretty unprejudiced in my view. Etc.
IIRC, every Pentax DSLR has been praised since the K20d.
Mike Johnston, formerly of Photo.net and currently The Online Photographer (and a magazine scribe back in the day) referred to the DA35 Ltd as the best.
I do think there may be some subtle prejudice against Pentax... sometimes reviews are *very* late, Pentax strengths like build quality and better OVF are often mentioned only briefly, almost negligibly - as if a better OVF, your window to the world, is somehow less important that 5 or 6 fps.
And there does seem to be a focus on the negative aspects of the Pentax lens system, because it doesn't directly equate to Canikon. Oh, sure, the criticism can be factual: "Pentax doesn't have an 85/1.2 like Canon!" but you never read "Too bad Nikon doesn't have a beautifully tiny 15/4 like Pentax!"
So, yeah, I think that Pentax has to win by Monochrome's "margin of prejudice"... the prejudice is just not always overt.