since getting the k20d + grip been thinking more and more that this camera is doing everything I want it to do. So being photokina time and new announcement time I think what new features do I want to see released and for me I'm struggling to say (I fully respect some people need more fps, but personally I dont, please dont make this a thread just about that). I also intend for the thread to be a littlehearted and hopefully noone will get worked up
anyway replacement k20d thread in news and rumors has got to the point of discussing pro camera and categories of camera. so we have the 'entry levels' then the d80 / 40d / k20d / d300 mid ones (which some people break into 2 groups) and then the d3 / 1ds / MF etc 'pro cameras'. But what defines a "pro" camera?
personally some of my best selling images are taken with a *ist ds and one of two $25 lenses from the 2nd hand store. I am selling / licencing images taken with *ist ds / k100d / k10d and k20d. Ben / Mark Dima and others use k10d / k20d so it is not the ability to produce a 'professional' or saleable image.
nikon d2x and d3 are 12mp and pro, d300 is not, canon 5d usually is but not always, fuji have a pro 6mp, nikon had a pro 4mp, blad h3d is pro (duh), sony 24mp is a probably, really megapixels are all over the place so not mp.
noise - d2x although old is still pro and it is a noise master
so not noise, it is also apsc and olympus e3 usually is pro but has smaller than apsc sensor so not sensor size
1dsmkII is 4fps, less than later entry level cameras but still pro. Most MF max out 1FPS, so not fps (except maybe in specialist "pro sport" cameras)
plenty can take a grip, so it is not a battery grip. k200d has weather sealing so not that.
50d has 1/8000 shutter but adv amatuer / semi pro, metering methods, number of af points all vary.
1dsmkii (again discontinued but still considered pro) has max iso1600, many mf is 400 etc
By many reports (and I haven't used them or taken much notice) canon's 1dsmkiii and the 10fps camera (I can remember whats it called
) have had lots of af problems, so not af system?
so about all I can find in common for 'pro' cameras is that they use compactflash (rather than sd), there big and heavy, they are expensive and the companies marketing department says they are 'pro' cameras
so if pentax puts a k20d in a bigger body with compactflash slot and charges say $5000 for it and finally says it is a pro camera. would it be a 'pro' camera?
Anyway with the above in mind (ie its not sensor size, its not fps, its not mp, etc) what would pentax need to put in a camera that would define it as pro? is there something dumb and obvious that I am missing?
Phil