Originally posted by jogiba Why is it people worship the 645D that they will never purchase because they will never have the money for it but hate full frame cameras that cost a fraction of what a 645D cost even though the full frame beats it in reviews.
You keep talking about full frame "beating" 645D. Reviews are concerned with a broad spectrum of things, including auto focus, frame rate, etc. However, if you mainly shoot portraiture and landscapes, these issues that are prominent in reviews may not be important to you. On the other hand, if everything I read about sensor size between APS-C and full frame is right, then certainly increasing sensor size again is beneficial.
I don't have money for either right now. If Ricoh comes out with a full frame camera, then we will have a different discussion (if I have better finances), but at this point I am satisfied with a K3 and dreaming of medium format someday...
Originally posted by Clavius Pentaxians have been able to talk down each and every FF camera. I think this is the cause for the long delay in the K-mount FF camera. Obviously Pentax, Hoya and now Ricoh first want to know exactly what the Pentaxians want from it. And I don't blame them. I whish them luck figuring that out.
Ricoh shouldn't care what Pentaxians want. If they are going to sell a full frame K Mount camera, it has to be to other people than just us. There just aren't enough of us, even if ten or fifteen percent of existing Pentax users buy a full frame camera, to make it worthwhile. There just isn't the margin in these cameras that there used to be.