Originally posted by nostatic .....
I just hate Sony and generally avoid their products. They get some things right and other things wrong (like anyone else). I'll bet the a550 isn't nearly as nice a build quality as the K7 but time will tell. In the end every product is flawed in some way and you have to compromise. And if all other things are equal, I'd rather give my money to an underdog like Pentax than the borg that is Sony.
Not rational perhaps, but I never claimed to be. Rational that is...
Well, you are exactly right... that isn't very rational.
How is it exactly that you can compare Sony to a Borg but Pentax is an underdog?
Just because a company is at the bottom in sales doesn't necessarily make them an underdog. Using the term 'underdog' implies that Pentax is at a disadvantage and their failure is imminent. Hmm... perhaps you didn't fully understand its meaning, considering you champion Pentax quite often.
Actually, in many ways Pentax's parent company Hoya is every bit the corporate 'pirate' as Sony is. There is no good guy - bad guy here! However, I am willing to bet that Sony's number of innovations trump Pentax's.
It's all good... I haven't picked on you in a while... SMILE!