Originally posted by jct us101 Usually I love their reviews, but when I just read the K-7 review, I almost wanted to laugh at how hard he was trying to downplay the Pentax. For example, he says that the SR works with "nearly" all lenses, even though it literally is ALL lenses. His image tests were also incredibly ridiculous, using mediocre lenses when for his Canon ones he ALWAYS uses L lenses. Did anyone else read this?
He's generally fairly neutral; he has reviewed most Pentax DSLRs well. You can't blame him for providing mediocre samples if Pentax didn't supply him with lenses that were any better. Maybe a DA Limited would have helped!
And maybe he misrepresented SR a bit, but with non-AF lenses you are on the hook for supplying addition SR fl data which can be a pain for zooms. I guess he meant to say that it works seamlessly with nearly all lenses and that with older ones you need user intervention for it to work properly.
I don't think he was downplaying Pentax at all. Note how he is impressed by the amazingly long menus and he didn't think the standard kit lens was that terrible. He also didn't fuss about noise which I guarantee others will do. He was happy about the 720p video quality and AF (which almost nobody seems to ever be happy with
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