Originally posted by Professor Batty @
KB1SFVE3 ... You make some valid points, but you're misled in directing them at the K-30. I had the K20D and sold it within a month after buying the K-30. Other than the addition of Video (which I never use) the K-30 is a
simpler camera, and cheaper as well. It also outperforms the K20D by about two stops in IQ, is smaller and much easier to use. By your line of reasoning we'd never get any new cameras!
I, too, own a K-20.
And I can certainly live without the "two stops in IQ" I'd get from buying the K-30. What's more, if I ever want to shoot video (which I don't) I'll buy a movie camera. And if I want a "simpler" and more "lightweight" camera, I'll buy a point and shoot rather than yet
another DSLR.
Like I said, a lot of what's touted as "new and improved" by the DSLR marketers these days is little more than what I and others (like Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe) have come to call
"feature creep":....the addition of so-called "features" that few (if any) of us will ever need...or use.
But, hey...if all those new "features" are what floats your boat.....go for it!
Keith