Originally posted by sculptor666 i was only talking about new pentax vs new pentax.
i'm not saying it's just megapixels, but mp is waaaay more important than you're stating. if the k-1 was a 24mp camera, it would have been a catastrophic failure.
oh contraire mon ami, if it would have offered faster burst + bigger buffer and better AF instead of the megapixel craze,
at least all the people who own a K-1 now, would have bought that camera also, (because it still would have been the only digital FF Pentax body)
--- despite the fact that it would have attracted many newbees also with just a little bit advertising here and there.
(YES even NEWBIES buy FF cameras. PERIOD. That is a fact. If you believe it or not some people just have the money)
Those youngsters that are otherwise often attracted and fall for Sony A7 bodies or Nikon D750
and all the others who think 36mp is way too much and only bloats their LR-libs would have bought it too.
and since I guess that the hypothetical 24MP K-1 would also have offered Pixelshift, i guess many who bought it for Product Photography would also have grabbed one since you can blow up the actual resolution much better with pixelshifted 24mp pics to app. 30MP without loosing much ground compared to a pic with 36mp coming from a camera with low pass filter(D800 for instance)
PLUS all the people who dont think a week about buying a used K-30 for 100-200 bucks for their APS-C lenses or not
and think a PENTAX FF flagship introduced to the market after 2015 should offer at least 4k video with decent bitrates and min. 8fps stills-burst...
... ah... i guess those would also have bought such a hypothetical camera.
lookin at our marketshare its clearly time to stop pussyfooting around and
RICOH clearly should take the sorcerers hat and pull out
the real swag.
(and they should do it now and more often in the following time, or the brand will vanish from the market in app. 5 years.)
And there is also the possibility that we could have fished off many potential Canon 6D II buyers with such a (hypothetical) 24MP 4K capable FF pentax camera with 50 AF-Points...
That would have offered clearly way more than the 6DII does, now on the other hand what(if you leave out debatable SR and
think about the keyword CORE-SPECIFICATIONS)
except MP would attract a potential Canon 6DII buyer to grab a (as actual is) K-1???
I mean the Canon has at least a 45-cross-type AF sensor points...(OK they messed up ISO capability on that one, but who uses ISO 12.800 anyway?)
READ >>
Megapixels don't matter - Business Insider --- the article says pretty much everything there is to say, without touching the ground of pseudo-science.
But actually i dont really know why this hypothetical yadayada should matter in anyway... why did I... a forget it....
(jus anserin, cause i feel a problem in the logic of sayin something like "that would have been a catastrophic failure"... sounds a bit like a joke. but hey ...everyone throws in his own 2 cents) Much more important:
Now its all about K-1 Mark II LEAKS...
C'mon RICOH! We gotta know!
spend us some dirty pic of the prototype or something alike. We're hungry!