Originally posted by StephenG relax buddy you getting a tad wound up there.. its only cameras we are talking.... you need to get a grip there on your chair, you getting a tad too excited here..
and why would pentax need 10x bigger r&d budget for a camera that already exists? they not reinventing the wheel.. they not coming up with a totally new concept and innovation....
you seem to believe that pentax are so far behind everyone else that they need a 10x bigger r&d budget to make what the others already have??
I have a little more faith in pentax than that...
No, they just need the same R&D budget as everyone else.
The fact that other people have developed FF cameras does not help much. You cant reuse any of their components or intellectual property. Pentax will still need to take a sensor they have never used before, develop a new imaging system and build a completely new body, AF system, mirror box etc. and make sure they are not infringing any existing paptents already lodged by Nikon and Canon. Then they have to sell enough to make a profit.
Of course they CAN build one, they are clever enough, its just a workload problem. But these things are considerably more complicated than you seem to think and developing the packaging and refining the image processing with a new sensor can take a lot of time and trial and error. It should also be obvious from Canons experience that even developing a new AF system can be quite hard work!
With more engineers working on other parts of the design in parallel, and with more experience with previous models, this process can be speeded up a lot. Pentax have neither as many engineers, nor any existing FF models to draw from.
You are grossly UNDERestimating the complexity of designing ANY new camera, or the effort Canon and Nikon have put in to developing their sensors and cameras. Canon and Nikon must be pretty incompetent if a minnow like Pentax can produce a first time out FF camera that matches them on IQ and performance, add extra features, for less cash and still make a profit with a far smaller customer base.
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now steve, either debate properly or rather not repond.
there is nothing to be gained in a discussion about cameras by you replying to me in an insulting or rude manner. rather stick to the topic at hand, than try insult and attack me ok?
There is nothing to be gained by debate if you simply repeat the same wishful thinking over and over again despite what are quite obvious issues which you fail to acknowledge.