Originally posted by urssu Get your tinfoil hats ready. A (couple) of big companies will want to kill the market Pentax has (marginal to non- existent/ competitive) . Are you people adults? I honestly doubt that and can' t imagine you are taken seriously. You advocate that 1% like is the holynes of photography and yet blabberd when others came with other moderate improvements compared to Pentax. Pentax has 0 innovation (look the word up before citting the x year old sensor improvements, yada yada) , but is a a camera (whatever model you have) . So, what' s this teenagerish acting?
I tend to think in terms of 'steps' - of changes which eliminate impediments to what I do - instead of 'innovations' - and in that sense I have enjoyed three 'steps' since I moved up from Kodak Instamatic to 35mm in 1969 {incidentally, moving up to 35mm was not one of those 'steps' - it didn't affect my photography as much as these 'steps' did}:
1979: Going from
rangefinder to
SLR. Having a single focal length hindered my photography because it chained perspective to framing and because there were some photographs I missed because I couldn't back up enough.
1995: Going from
manual focus to
auto focus
2006: going from
film to
digital
I should mention that I never had a darkroom. For most of the film era, I shot Kodachrome and depended on professional development to provide my images. Today, I do as little PP as possible, because most of my discretionary time goes to my long-term project of converting film images to digital; inspecting at 100%, I find that most images have problems, such as scratches and mold spots for me to correct, so I have no desire to spend even more computer time on my hobby, so SOOC JPEG quality is very important to me.
Also, I am not a pixel peeker - I believe one should look at a photo as a whole, not though a magnifying glass - and I have never been a fan of corner-to-corner sharpness - if something is important, I will put it in the center of the image.
Last night my wife and I were at the dinner provided by her employer at the end of every academic year {she is a college administrator}. I took one discrete picture with the Pentax Q-7 I was carrying in my suit coat jacket. As the dinner progressed, I realized how I was irritated by the flash-flash-flash coming from the college PR person; the flash was annoying, and looking at my picture, I'm convinced she wasn't gaining anything. As digital has progressed, I have become increasingly convinced that flash is not needed in most circumstances, and in many - by creating shadows or washing out natural lighting - it makes things worse. With the stability provided by IBIS, I find that I hardly ever use flash any more - I would rather tolerate minor motion blur.
In that context, I firmly believe that the 'accelerator' will provide one last step for me {I am70 years old} - by making much higher ISO values useable to me, I gain ability to take pictures anywhere at anytime without motion blur or use of flash other than
very rare fill flash. My view is not that of a professional artist like MJKoski, but I'm guessing there are a lot more like me, and hundreds of parents/grandparents will really benefit from cameras that deliver solid photographs without need of flash, expensive "f/2.8" lenses, or DarkRoom work.