Originally posted by ogl hmmmm
it's so pessimistic
Yes it is, I still hope pentax will introduce new body for professional work, hope it's k-7, but with pentax i hope all time.
You said, that it will be real semi pro aps-c camera. But what is semi-pro? Canon has d450 semi-pro camera and 40D + 50D pro aps-c camera? Nikon has D90 semi-pro camera and D300 pro aps-c camera? So new K-7 will be at same level like 450D & D90? I hope not.
When I shoot some fashion photos, it doesn't matter what camera it is. Everything is mostly at ISO 100 and results are +- same. But pentax is far away from C+N here too with it's 1/180 synchro speed.
For reportages is pentax no good choice. It is, when you shooting photos for home album, but no for money. If you shoot for money this kind of photography you have to deliver sharp photos with interesting moments. I shoot it 3 years with pentax and a lot of photos ends in trash because of its slow AF and no accurate AF (you can say, it's photographer's hands problem, but I tried C+N and I have to say it isn't)
High ISO noise is not good too (as I said I love pentax, but I saw C+N raw files when I shooted with it)
I hope pentax will offer new body for serious work and real (semi)professionals, not only toys for beginners like k-m, etc. I think here is gap in pentax offer and I hope and wish pentax all the best with new K-7 to fill that gap for some time.