Originally posted by rawr And re "what Pentax is doing with good Sony sensors" - I agree with Nicolas06. The K-5 earned Pentax that reputation, but to be frank I am not sure Pentax is really capable anymore of doing any better with Sony sensors than Nikon or Sony, as the K-3's sensor performance reveals.
Sony and Toshiba sensor development of five years K-5 versus D7200 has been absolutely stagnant at a ridiculous +0,2 EV "improvement". That's not even worth mentioning, let alone that anyone in real world can see it.
Then we have the failed 42Mpx sensor which is buggy / noisy crap for long time exposures and for dynamic range at the all important low ISO it is 0,86 EV worse than the leading D810 sensor.
Actually so bad at it that it delivers
no (that is 0,1) dynamic range improvement over a K-3 APSC sensor where it should deliver at least 1,3 EV.
When did somebody dare bring out a sensor that was so much of a step backwards? Un-Innovation.
Sony can be happy about Canon's neverending sluggishness, but after some more years that will be gone. Then Sony are in deep trouble.
Their sensor's are lame minor upgrades the last years, far from the level of improvement the 16 Mpx APSC sensor brought.
We can be happy that we seem to get the currently world's best FF sensor from the D810.