Originally posted by OldChE They like the Pentax brand,
Why then are they doing everything to kill it?
I saw their show of hands but either that's insincerity or they somehow think that punishing Pentax with unfair reviews is the best approach to force Pentax to produce the cameras they'd prefer.
Originally posted by OldChE they liked the K-1 a lot,
Not enough to award it its deserved distinction.
Yes, the K-1 is not the perfect camera but for the price it offers so much and is just fantastic for a lot of photographic genres. No need at all to trash it for its lacking AF-C performance. Remember how they grossly overstated their case by calling AF in general to be inadequate? Only after protests, they changed their message to a more precise one, pointing out that it really is just the AF-C performance that let's the K-1 down somewhat.
Funnily enough, the protests (whether they are responding to not acknowledging the in-body stabilisation (which they recently professed to starting to love), initially making a mess of evaluating PixelShift, screwing up the K-1 II noise reduction evaluation, the list goes on and on) are interpreted to show how zealous and overly fervent Pentaxians are.
Originally posted by OldChE just not the K-1 mark II since it was not differentiated enough from the former model
It is one thing to be disappointed about the lack of added value but a completely different affair to award a "worst camera" distinction.
I don't like the K-1 II mandatory noise reduction either, but given that the K-1 II's sensor is essentially ISO-invariant, there is a way to work around that issue and the K-1 II did bring some improvements (e.g. regarding AF-C, something that DPReview are of course unable to test reliably with their inadequate methodology) over the already excellent K-1. So in no universe does the K-1 II deserve a "worst camera" award.
Ridiculous. Simply ridiculous. And all that under the guise of liking the Pentax brand. Yeah, right.