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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 10:33 AM
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it's a gimmick when you compare it with any BSI sensor...
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 10:04 AM
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oh right... i forgot. you are a blad guy. now it all makes sense.
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no, i'm aware of the k-70... currently they have three various and still slightly warm bodies available on the slab at the warehouse... prefer to buy a modern camera for this year's upgrade cycle.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 09:20 AM
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lol oh my goodness... you guys are all missing the mirrorless boat, aren't you?
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 09:04 AM
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*reluctantly agrees with P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S... lol
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well that doesn't surprise me mikey... you seem to have an affinity for holding onto redundant camera bodies, something i can absolutely respect (often to my own fiscal detriment). perhaps you can explain your decisions to us crazy mirroless kids further, because i don't see it...!? like, no seriously, i can't see much at all because it's only 24mp and we are hurdling towards 2019... the standard is 36mp, oh wait, that was 2016!?
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 06:58 AM
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well you started it... lol
perhaps you were a trifle jittery on the ol' shutter with the suggestion that i might be some sort of charlatan, but that's just my opinion...
honestly, look at the pricing... they only have one more camera to slash the price of: the k-1ii. tried ordering one in Canada 3 months ago (now i am glad that i waited) and they were saying limited to no stock with a wait. currently the only pentax cameras available at national retailers in canada are ordered directly from the warehouse. smaller camera shops aren't even keeping stock. something is in the air...
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 06:05 AM
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you can call my ego or my credibility into question if you like... #justsaying maybe from a marketing and engineering perspective the big four might be onto something... hahaha. it will be a toss up for camera of the year between the sony a7iii (a pro-sumer camera on a good day by my standards) and the very tempting (but ultimately not much better than any other aps-c camera) fuji x-t3... both are mirrorless and both are state of the art. the nikon d850 is as good as the next generation pentax full frame dslr could aspire to be, but it isn't winning camera of the year because it came out last year... it was the last truly great dslr.
aps-c dslr cameras have their merit in the size department and i suppose to a certain extent they are also still somewhat worthy for their feature set in specific situations--but as the technosexual mirrorless revolution continues, that dslr frame just keeps getting darker...
in addition to that, marketing budgets for dslr cameras on any end of the pricing spectrum will be niche at best in 2019 friend--all the regressive logic in the world isn't going to change that. do you want to put up $14 million to run a three week ad campaign promoting antiquated technology at yesterday's prices? neither does pentax. they want to market the anniversary edition k-1000 mirrorless camera. anything else is screaming into a chasm...
if black friday pricing doesn't tell you something is up, then clearly i cannot convince you. frankly, i maintain that all of us multiple camera owners won't be convinced until we chop off the arm--we are going to have to have it in our hands... only once we look through the first ever truly useful and not distracting hybrid viewfinder system will we be hastily ridding ourselves of our old pentax cameras... maybe you'll even manage to rid yourself of that sony a7ii you're unfortunately rocking.
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oh yeah, an addendum...
sony will be relatively loose with the pricing of their global shutter capable sensor technology on their next generation of pxw-fs__ series cameras... they are going to have to initiate us impoverished fs users with red-esque features if they are going to continue to drive Innovation. this will cause red to innovate their bit depth. the sensors listed won't end up causing a full frame race in the existing super-35 "expensive" camera market, so the only options are the likes of panasonic and pentax... two companies with historical preference for pushing the envelope with their flagship. sony's own a-mount line might see an unlikely revival, but it is more than likely that these sensors will be in the a7siii and a7riv, respectively... if you ask me to speculate, these sensors are going into the panos and they are going to make canon and nikon wish they had released their pro-featured mirrorless cameras first. anyone else want some?
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 04:47 AM
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nothing substantive, but i know that everyone in here advocating for a dslr continuum is a part of the problem for pentax... soon they will all be convinced of the virtues of the mirrorless full frame camera, but as of now they lack vision.
can you blame us pentaxians for being shell-shocked after all these hours waiting on the beach?
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-23-2018, 10:13 PM
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this isn't going into any dslr... wake up folks. these are the pano sensors. in my humble opinion it is very likely that the pentax mirrorless full frame will sport the 36 version, which means it will probably shoot 24p video as well as anything else... do you really think pentax will ignore video forever?
historically, the k-5 made the same mistake as the canon 5dmkiv (in that it was all robust bitrate and no functionality), but i wouldn't be so quick to write pentax off in the video department.
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