Originally posted by Donald high ISO performance is useless in most practice; it's just marketing bragging rights in 48 point type. In future there will be no such thing as ISO, gain, amplification will be rendered obsolete.
I don't find high ISO performance all that useless when I'm shooting in a bar, at a concert, a gig... we can all talk about what might happen in the future. But in the present, dSLRs have ISO settings, and I for one need the higher sensitivities for many, many situations where available light is low and use of flash is impossible or undesirable. In those situations I don't want to brag, I want to get the shot and have a reasonably clean image.
Having said that, I'm not asking for 12800 ISO with perfectly noise-free shots. The K100d produces very acceptable images at 1600 ISO, and has the option of 3200 ISO in-camera. If Pentax could reproduce (or improve on) that in future I would be very happy.
Originally posted by Donald high frame per second is useless in most practice, it's just marketing bragging rights in 72 point type. Get a video camera at 28.3 fps, configurable up to 100+ fps for super action.
I'm inclined to agree with you there... it's not useless at all for some types of photography, but then... If shooting 10fps was a priority for me, I wouldn't have bought Pentax. That's not what their systems have been about, at least as long as I can remember. That said, Minolta managed 5fps in their high-end film SLRs; something of that level from Pentax would be nice, so at least we have the option... not right now but when enough SDM lenses are available for it to make sense.