Originally posted by chaza01 Crudely adding a pair of LEDs isn't going to attract anyone. This camera is repulsive. I will not sleep tonight. The image will stick in my mind. I'm scarred. And scared. Scarred and scared.
I don't know what to think anymore. I don't know who to trust. Why should I continue living? I feel like a 10 year old fresh out of a Jurassic Park screening.
The problem with the L-SD, LEDs aside, is the fact that the design does not look cohesive. It looks like lots of separate ideas put into one body but never anything more than that. It is confusing. Frightfully confusing.
Yes, that is my point. Pros know the camera is just something that you put behind good glass, and that anything above, say, 10MP is good for most professional uses like portraits, sports, events, and even some landscape, if you don't print the size of a wall.
With my K20D at 14.6MP and lenses like the DA 35 2.4 and the Auto Sears 50 f2, it's unbelievable, the level of detail and clarity I see when zooming in to 100%. Even the Pentax kit lens does that in the middle of the range.
I printed a picture of my wife and our youngest son to 8.5x11.5 and it looks very good (taken with DA 35 2.4 wide open at 2.4, for nice isolation). When I zoom to 100% with my computer, I see all sorts of skin imperfections and wet snot under the kid's nose that doesn't show up in the medium size print. Since I wasn't printing large, I knew I didn't have to worry about any of these things. So if 14Mp gives me that much detail that I don't ever even see unless I'm zooming with my computer to the point that I can't even see the whole face at once, and would probably have to print in feets to see all this detail, what is the point of a 24mp camera for me?
Or, like this other co-worker that I have - he bought a Sony superzoom (like 50+ times zoom, tiny sensor, big lens) for his trip to London. Even at 1280 resolution, his pictures don't look sharp. But it's a 20MP camera! That's why he bought it - it looked "pro" and had 20 megapickles...