Originally posted by dgaies Probably
Undoutedly, but then again they delivered the goods on IQ with X100 and X10. Then there's this guy who's an actual professional photographer (my apologies for the cut and paste job from another thread):
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"new images to come, we have had more time to shoot with it and the x-pro 1 is a brilliant little camera. Those who comment wanting a little more bang for their bucks should look at buying a Phase One, if that is out of the budget might I suggest the x100 or the x-pro1. I have images hanging in my galleries shot with the x100 sitting along side images from my 5D2 and my Phase and at 20x30inch you almost can't pick them. Now the x-pro1 is better again so I have total confidence that the prints will be amazing. Get out from behind your screens and take some photos, isn't that what it is all about?"
And there was that reviewer from from Europe who compared the image quality to his Nikon D3... but hey eventually somebody who shoots photos for a living will eventually complain along with the Pixel Peepers and that will justify the hilarious negativity, right? If I was a betting man, I'd bet if Pentax released the X Pro 1 a lot of people on this forum would be talking about what a great camera it's going to be. But hey, that would be a bit cynical right so I'll just leave it at that.
Perhaps a lot of the complainers just need to get a Phase One. That should do the trick. I'll be perfectly happy with the X Pro 1 and the D700. To be honest (I just print photos not stare at crop shots on a computer monitor so I'm kind of weird), I find the X100 to be as good as the D700 about 95% of the time.
But after having used a K5, D700, X100 and various MFT cameras, I find people generally see what they want to see on these camera forums. The K5 by the way is an outstanding camera.