Originally posted by normhead How soon people forget, the K-5 pretty much blew away every other APS-c on the planet in DR and some other features. At that point Pentax engineers came up with a camera that was simply the best at what it did. There is simply no reason to say Pentax engineers can't do that again, especially since they already did it once.
This is, I think, what we're all hoping for, the D5's magnificent specs notwithstanding. Most people will never go to the places the D5 is capable of taking them; why should they cough up the money for it? I've heard $6500 quoted, and I'm not even sure that includes glass. Right now we're expecting the worst case sticker price for the K-1 as $3000 US body-only, so add $1300 for the DFA 24-70 and $2300 for the D-FA*70-200 (both prices from B&H) and you are only just over. Which do YOU think a first-time full-framer will buy?
Originally posted by normhead Pentax has never produced one camera that was better at everything than every other camera, but then, neither has anyone else. However, it's almost a given, Pentax is going to produce a camera that's better than any other camera a few things even if it's just a better compromise in the feature set for some applications, without being top dog in any one of those features.... and that's all you can ask of any camera.
I don't ask for the best at anything or everything. I ask for good enough to be the best at something, and Pentax has always given us that.
This is why, back in the days when it was still competitive, the F-4 Phantom sold so well - not best at anything, but good enough at everything. And those who needed one airplane to do everything naturally bought it.
Also, by the time you are dropping $6500 on a full-frame camera, if you don't need the whizbang speed and stupid-high ISO, the lowest level of medium format starts to feel approachable. Say hello to the Pentax 645 series...
Last edited by pathdoc; 01-08-2016 at 09:44 AM.