Originally posted by Angevinn In any marketing poll (which I'm sure Hoya/Pentax has already done), you need more choices. Answers/feedback can be easily steered by how and what questions are asked.
How many improvements did the K-7 feature over the K20D? How about the K-X over the K-M? Both cameras had numerous upgrades. To make users pick between two isn't right.
This simply isn't true, in your post on > Pentax News and Rumors > New Pentax body? > Page 12> johnmflores (post #177) @ 6:19 a.m. posted:
"FF will come to Pentax eventually; that is the ceaseless march of technology. But if Pentax asked me what I wanted first - FF or better AF - I'd choose AF without hesitation."
This shows that the poll is not impartial and you prefer AF performance over a FF sensor.
Hoya (deep pockets) is at the wheel now at Pentax. It takes money (R&D) to make money (by selling quality, well engineered products). I see Hoya making a success of Pentax again. I don't see a half baked attempt (that's why I stated this is a flawed poll, with only two choices) by Hoya at upgrading Pentax' flagship DSLR camera.
A - If you want to spend more time looking at my post history, you'll also see me endorsing the idea of a $1700 FF Pentax and admitting that my thoughts about FF have changed over the past year. To cite just one post of mine as evidence of bias is a pretty weak argument. Ultimately, there's a difference between an impartial poll and an impartial pollster.
B - I invite you take the language of the poll and my first post and show me where my language was biased towards AF. I worked hard to make the language as unbiased as possible and would welcome any criticism. What I'd like to see (and I've mentioned this in other posts) is the polling system present the options in random order for each voter so as not to introduce bias in the ordering of the options.
C - Please support your claims that marketing polls should offer more choices. In all the ones that I've created and/or been involved in the creation of, I've never heard of this rule.
D - I make no claims that the K-8 won't feature other improvements. Nor do I make claims that the K-8 won't have both. At the end of the day, all I'm asking is a simple question, "If
you had to choose between FF and improved AF, what would it be?" It's in no way a criticism of Hoya, Pentax or their collective abilities to produce a camera.
No back to our poll...