Originally posted by johnmflores Projecting the findings of a 100-person self-selected poll onto the greater market is not 100 times better than a single person's opinion. Actually, it's probably worse because it feigns authority and statistical validity where none exists.
And that's one person's personal opinion.
I have no doubt there are better ways to conduct a poll.
However your assertion that it's worse than a personal opinion is completely unsupported.
Usually what happens with this type of data, is the data is further refined by further research. It's rare the original data gets completely tossed.
If you really want to say the poll is in some way inaccurate, run a better poll. Odds are it will come out pretty much the same as this one, although there is a possibility another poll might contradict it.
Having data is always preferred to personal anecdotes. Personal anecdotes provide insight in to what you might want to test for, but they are not data in themselves.
Sometimes the cost of doing a proper test is more expensive than the info is worth to you. That's why it's usually done by marketing departments not individuals, and kept under lock and key. You don't want to give your competitors to the research you use to define your space in the market.
So you have to ask yourself, what does Ricoh marketing know that you don't?
One thing might be, the huge bank of legacy glass and it's place in selling Pentax gear. I'm not sure that a lot of that glass is what folks would want to use for 4k video. How many cameras could Pentax sell without using legacy glass as a selling point? Not very many.
I bought my K-1 in part because I found a Tamron 300 tha would work with my 1.7x converter to give me decent telephoto options. Without that, Pentax wouldn't have been able to sell me a K-1. But would a videographer be happy with that combination? An old noisey screw drive lens?
The question asked by Ricoh marketing is going to be are we going to make more money selling Pentax a legacy DSLR company and bringing newer technologies like video into the Ricoh line. Personally I think that's what their market research has told them, based on their behaviour, and our little straw poll here on the forum would tend to back that up.
Pentax's current market perception is probably solid, conservative, behind the curve for options, but ahead of the curve in IQ per dollar, you have to be a fan of legacy glass to really appreciate it.
Canon and Nikon
Trying to maintain cutting edge performance in all aspects.
Cheap plastic feel to lower end models but solid high end.
Ahead of the curve in options, AF speed, video, fps in their high end models. Average performance on base models.
What would it cost to bring Pentax up t speed with Canon and Nikon? Apparently about 1.4 billion. Just adding faster 4k video and convincing a very few video graphers to switch won't cover that.
But we digress, is anyone else going to post some spectacular 4k video?
I need something I can load onto my wife new iMac to show her how great 4k video is.
SO far I'm having trouble getting approval form the House Appropriations Committee for a camera capable of 4k video..
Until I can see something where she says " I wish I could do something like that." and it's just some guy who bought a still camera, not a video professional, it's a lot cause.
Come on guys, help me out here.