You are right. Maybe I fall then and when for the brain-washing of the industry's marketing and their fanboys' echoing.
If a fairy would offer "I let you shoot like Henri Cartier-Bresson IF you only use his camera for that", then I would say "yes please", even though this would be quite a technical down-grade.
There's nothing wrong with our K-7 / K20D, unless you have true special interests benefitting from an upgrade, say, if you were keen on astrophotography (where the K-7 / K20D simply lack some fitness for purpose), or if you wanted to upgrade the autofocus for e.g. passionate animals shooting, or if you even would have to change the system alltogether if you were going "pro" and start doing studio photography, heavy-duty weddings, or heavy-duty sports, become a paparrazi, or need a special blend of lenses, which would be available only from another brand's lens portfolio/strategy.
But for us average general-purpose shooters, for the typical Pentax customers (including me), and for doing predominantly still objects in good light (e.g. landscapes or some 'arty' photography), I dont' feel we would miss out anything.
What I do find annoying with ALL DSLR, both ours as well as the newest, is that I feel I still have to spend a good portion of my attention on working around technical problems in the pictures, e.g. avoiding wrong exposure estimations of the body, wrong focussing estimations of its AF system, or blur because the "shake reduction" wasn't ready yet.
Especially the elderly Pentaxes (such as my K20D) have a reputation, that you need to know them very well, including their technical quirks and pitfalls, and to be very conscious about them when doing your photography, all the time.
So today, it is in principle the very same as in old Ansel Adam's times. He was also technically constrained, so had to be very technology conscious in his working all the time. And I'm sure he upgraded, as soon as this helped mitigating technical constraints of that time.
Should future bodys (and be it in a few years time) allow us to depart from this way of working alltogether, I would perceive this as a huge personal upgrade, in terms of freedom on what I can concentrate on when doing photography.
What I DON'T mean with upgrade is the usual stuff dictated from the industry's limited imaginations, such as a few more megapixels, or some more signal-to-noise ratio.
Last edited by Frater; 07-14-2013 at 06:15 PM.