Originally posted by pz1fan Their FF venture can not be called unsuccessful
That's why i said relatively...They failed at piercing the pro market, and about establishing without any doubt they are there to stay and that an investment won't be met sometime soon with a press release stating their abandon of the FF line. Personally i'm sure that even if they are in a deep crisis, with value plumeting, Sony is big enough to keep being a big player in the camera market, so probably they'll just keep being there till all those insecurities fade and till it stops being viewed as an unworthy outsider. The FF line surely will benefit too from the "captured" market share in entry and mid level dslrs they snatched largely from Nikon.
Originally posted by Clavius I think the promiss of retreating to the D800 thread is just a tactic
Yep..we're really out to pervert your pure pentaxian brains.
In fact i think all this discussion might be of some use if they got some people screening the forums, it gives them data...skewed because there are lots of gearheads and advanced photogs who ain't really the masses of people using dslrs (Pentax' marketshare comes more frompeople wanting Camo dressed cameras, pink with purple and light blue or any other eye hurting contraption).
Originally posted by Clavius And it still has, although the difference in IQ is fading.
I would say that at this point that difference is pretty much faded...there still are differences but right now IQ isn't the most obious.
CCD vs. CMOS
A modular 35mm would surely turn some heads away, they could have a sensor module and adaptors that would take any lens from any brand (couldn't they?) but i doubt the costs are something manageable. We'll have to wait a year at least, more likely a couple, to really see why Ricoh bought Pentax.