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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-29-2018, 03:44 AM
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The interesting thing is the rumor that Pentax is releasing at least one new full frame next year. I know many of the things that are due to be improved in the K-1 sphere and honestly, they could do so pretty easily using an older sensor, such as is in the A7r II and if they wanted to do 4K video, that sensor would do it.
The big thing about Pentax not buying the cutting edge, just released sensors is that it tends to keep the price down on their cameras. Not a bad thing when you consider how much image quality they were able to milk out of the ancient D800 sensor.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-25-2018, 04:35 AM
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Megapixels aren't the be all, end all of photography. I doubt very much that folks shooting medium format will switch, even if they manage to get 100 megapixels in a full frame sensor. There is a different look about medium format and certainly just adding megapixels to smaller sensors won't change that.
It isn't as though the medium format market is that big anyway and most medium format photographers have other cameras that they shoot as well (if this forum is any judge of things). The whole "medium format killer" idea was more a tag line that websites broke out when the D800 was released. But of course it really didn't affect the medium format market much either way.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
11-24-2018, 01:40 PM
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I don't understand why mirrorless folks are such evangelists. If SLRs are doomed then there is no particular need for evangelism of those pagans who are still using them. We'll figure out when we can't buy them any more or when the price of SLRs sky rockets versus mirrorless offerings. At present, if you don't shoot video, there is little difference between SLRs and mirrorless, other than the whole OVF versus EVF argument.
And the OVF versus EVF argument is basically unwinnable. On one hand, you have people who like the longer battery life of OVFs and don't like EVFs for whatever reason (lag/eye strain/headaches) and on the other hand, you have people who say that EVFs give them a better feel for how their photos will look, offer focusing helps, and a histogram in the viewfinder. In a sense both are right, but it's like arguing about whether the best color is green.
In the end, there are similar sensors in mirrorless and SLR cameras and for the most part, you can take very similar photos with one style versus the other. The lenses and photographer's skill are far important in the photos produced than whether the camera had an EVF or OVF.
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