Originally posted by Aristophanes The APS-H Canon's were offered at a bureau discount with the same warranty and service policy a FF. The whole point of APS-H was it allowed media bureaus the ability to keep their big lens investments but get a close enough sensor format (and a little more reach) without breaking the bank.
Good point, and with the Pentax 645D cat is out of the bag there is little point in Pentax trying to appease the bean counters. If we encourage pentax to come out with an APS-H camera we are only encouraging mediocrity, wasting resources that can be better used to coming out with an actual solution instead of a half-arsed stop-gap solution that does nothing more than prolong the demise of the company.
It is FF or bust.
If people are really determined to save money on their cameras there, is no reason why they should be forced to "upgrade". Pentax can continue to produce their excellent line of APS-C cameras and lenses - and people will buy them.
Originally posted by Fogel70 The whole 3mm of SR is a big misunderstanding, as the movement needed is much less than that.
Correct - in my disassembly of my K10D, I noticed the amount of travel allowed by the SR system, and many people have been misquoting that distance saying that it means that a full frame Pentax DSLR would be physically impossible - because K mount lenses don't produce image circles big enough. Big surprise: most of them do, actually.