Originally posted by hopey What kind of comparison is that? APS-C f2.8 lens + APS-C camera vs APS-C f3.5-5.6 lens + full frame camera?
Lol, folks can twist and turn around comparisons until blue in the face but the basic parameter doesn't really change, and certainly not when in a B&M store where a clever salesman is upselling you. At currently quoted prices, it's game over here, where I live, for high-end APS-C except when reasons other than price, IQ and a brand's wider ecosystem come into play (which are pretty big reasons to begin with actually). Extreme WR, weight and compactness, for example, or a love of the limited prime lenses. Very valid reasons to go with the Pentax, provided you're very careful with the FA limited lenses and the DA* lenses which are so highly priced here that if you start down that road that you will pay more for your Pentax APS-C system than you will for your Canonikon FF one. In that scenario, yes, Pentax would be an excellent choice. Going long for wildlife would be another reason, though here Canonikon probably offer better long lens catalogues so most folks, I would guess, would not choose a Pentax system.
So one can see how the window is closing. For a buyer who's not locked in and is brand-agnostic, it's game over. Don't forget that in order to take advantage of the removal of the AA filter in a K5IIs you will need to use very good lenses. There is no point in buying one and sticking the 18-55mm kit lens on the front. In any case, I'm not really thinking here only of the K5II series, an interim move anyway. I'm thinking of how on earth Pentax are going to persuade folks to buy a new APS-C flagship camera next year if it is priced anywhere near the 1100 GBP or so at which the K5 first debuted, if I recall. Say they lower the price to keep clear enough of the D600 level. All of that, at least one hundred GBP + per unit and possibly far more, represents lost revenue to Pentax. They're a business, profit and loss. Think about it.
Last edited by mecrox; 10-10-2012 at 01:06 PM.