Originally posted by rrstuff It seems that canon out an 80d af system into their t7i. I wonder how will ricoh respond.
The nature of most Pentax cameras is the excel at image quality in landscape and other stills type of photography, which 90% of such does not require some AF that is so many miliseconds faster than a competitor. Pentax is designed to be a camera for people who are more purists in certain segments into the traditional art of photography.
Now tell me again why comparing AF even matters?
If I am taking pictures of a fashion model, a mountain, an old barn, a car, a bridge, a cityscape, or any number of things that don't move around at warp speed explain to me why Ricoh would even care a single whit about 'responding' or trying to be like the other guys?
Ricoh isn't trying to replicate Canon or Nikon or anyone else for that matter. I for one have never made a video and I rarely if ever shoot fast moving subjects, and when I do shoot fast moving subjects I turn off AF entirely because it just works better.
So for someone like me, why should I give two seconds of thought about some comparative singular function?
When you take into account the entire system of what Ricoh offers it meets a whole lot of needs of a whole lot of people.
That said not all screwdrivers fit every single type of screw. Pick whatever the tool is you need to accomplish your specific mission.
But to ask a company to retool and redesign and repurpose their entire philosophy behind their designs so they can follow some other company is kind of ridiculous.
Honestly I doubt that Ricoh even cares that much to add another pretty much useless feature that will make zero difference to 90% of the photographers out there. All it will do is pull them from their mission and philosophy and drive up costs with the only benefit being that 'on paper' they will have another selling point that rarely if ever will help the end user.
Yes cameras improve over time, but dwelling on AF misses the whole boat of the Pentax concept.