Originally posted by deejjjaaaa but w/o it the talk will be "Pentax can't even dare to do anything to challenge anybody" ... what does Pentax have in camera dept (let us keep lenses alone for a while)... Panasonic has m4/3 and Oly at least has (was forced to) m4/3 camera in the work... C & N & S are in FF w/ various flavors of it (from low MP to high MP per FF sensor and prices from under $2K to you name it)... Sigma can claim Foveon... Fuji can claim SuperCCD or whatever it is... and Pentax ?
Challenge? Claim? How bout less testosterone, more results.
Pentax shouldn't let Canon and Nikon and certainly not Four-Thirds get inside their decision curve. Do what you can do, and do it the best you can, then put it in my hands, that's what I'd say.
If Canon had been willing to think a bit more like Pentax, they'd have had me back by now. And have had an advantage that their focusing rings go the right direction.
They may have bigger sensors *available,* Canon, but not that I can have. In fact most of their line has more of a crop factor, if that's a bone of contention of itself.
I *shot* Canon FD back in the day, and it was pretty much the Nikon snobs who would be the bullies about gear. It's not Pentax's fault if a lot of 'new Canon' people have tuned to geekery about numbers.
Of course the numbers mean things, but ..yeah, this is geekery. Sports fans do it, photogs do it, motorheads do it, kids with game consoles do it. Substituting some figures for some kind of ego thing. It's not like it was once, but yeah, *geekery* will allow a lot of males feeling a bit inadequate find a way to express how they feel about a *girl* waving a camera or whatever object.
Now, I'm hardly a 'competetive' photographer in any sense, but when I get a good image and someone says 'What's that from, a 5d? Nikon?' ...Always a smirk when out comes the old brass&glass. Yaknow, I mean, people whine about slow AF, like that makes them hard-core or something, but I *still* think AF is a crutch. (And pardon my limping . Sometimes it *is* really handy, ..and better is always better, but why the whining from all these *awesomely-* skilled photographers? Can't you focus?
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It'll do. I fully-expect to be further grudgingly-impressed in the future. In my world, the best thing they could do fo AF is make it ever-easier to *override* with all lenses, with finders to match, ...and if my camera says, 'OK, I got it, boss,' I want to be able to make book on that.
That's the news from 1990, folks, where all the finders are big, all the serious lenses are primes, and all the synch speeds are above average.