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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 07-04-2019, 07:54 AM  
New Sony APS-C Sensor - 26MP
Posted By RGlasel
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I think some of the confusion comes from Sony buying OLED TV panels from LG and hasn't manufactured LCD panels for a while. Is a Pentax DSLR still a Pentax if the sensor is manufactured by Sony?
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 07-03-2019, 03:51 PM  
New Sony APS-C Sensor - 26MP
Posted By RGlasel
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I agree with almost everything else in your post, but every digital camera released in the last ten years has been designed to appeal to customers, not to keep plant managers happy. If that wasn't the case, we would be stuck with three brands of 6 MP bricks that only work with the same brand of interchangeable lenses (and each brand would offer the same four zooms and three primes). Customers don't give a rat's arse about architectures and manufacturing processes, the only differentiators are feature lists and personal identification with categories of photographers. We buy one camera over another because it better matches our list of desired features and we perceive it to be a better fit to the type of photographer we want to be. As long as there are customers who want to be APS-C photographers, manufacturers of APS-C cameras will continue to make them.

Sony didn't want to compete with Canon and Nikon on their turf; deciding to build on its image as an electronic gadget company that makes video cameras by designing a line of mirrorless cameras that looked different from DSLRs was a deliberate marketing strategy and had nothing to do with being potentially cheaper to build (even if we accept that Sony made a conscious effort to streamline its cameras to use fewer parts, there is no evidence of a financial payoff). For Sony, moving from APS-C to FF was just another way to differentiate itself on features. Pentax did the same thing with the K-1, a K-3 with a bigger sensor and tilting rear LCD. Sensor size is a feature, not a manufacturing constraint, customers have shown very little interest in cameras that use smaller sensors to make smaller form factors possible.

In terms of applying the K-car strategy to cameras, Pentax is the leader with various components, processes and technology shared at various points in time between mirrorless (K-01), entry level, mid-level and flagship APS-C DSLRs, FF DSLRs and MF DSLRs; it was financial necessity that led to Pentax's lean product development strategy, not a philosophical adversion to consumer demand. With overall consumer demand for cameras being merely a shadow of what it was 5-10 years ago, the Pentax approach will be adopted by its larger competitors out of necessity. Announcing new FF mirrorless cameras from Canon, Nikon and Panasonic in 2018 was a last hurrah for product differentiation in the camera business. There may be new model numbers, but the cameras of 2024 will greatly resemble the cameras of 2019.
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 06-26-2019, 04:41 PM  
New Sony APS-C Sensor - 26MP
Posted By RGlasel
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Views: 109,434
Being logically consistent and true to your word are not requirements to be a poster here, so go ahead and admit it, you couldn't help yourself and not sneak a peek.
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 06-25-2019, 07:56 PM  
New Sony APS-C Sensor - 26MP
Posted By RGlasel
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I'm just trying to imagine hanging that rig on a belt loop.:) Actually, both devices hit the market about the same time, but the divide between Walkman people and Boombox people was bigger than the Grand Canyon (even bigger than the gap between MILCs and DSLRs). The whole idea of a boombox was to force strangers to listen to your music, the idea of a Walkman was to treat everyone else like strangers.
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 06-25-2019, 07:05 PM  
New Sony APS-C Sensor - 26MP
Posted By RGlasel
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I can't believe you are dissing such a ground breaking product as Sony's Walkman. You have no idea how it completely flipped how people consume recorded music. Until then, the only way to listen to music in public while remaining in isolation from the rest of the world was to plug your earphone into a portable transistor radio, which meant that you listened to the same music as millions of other people. Probably the most revolutionary thing Sony Corp has ever done.


Is it blasphemy to dismiss HURD as another one of Richard Stallman's idealistic, impractical and ultimately incomplete projects?
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 06-25-2019, 05:07 PM  
New Sony APS-C Sensor - 26MP
Posted By RGlasel
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Views: 109,434
Everyone seems to assume that it is impossible to keep manufacturing the K-70, KP and K-1 II for several years to come, but simply producing the same products without any upgrades might look like a viable business plan, especially if the owners of the Pentax brand look at industry forecasts and determine that no matter how impressive new models might be, there will never be enough sales volume to justify the necessary investment to produce truly new models. That doesn't mean the product line is dead, a much smaller sales volume is required to justify not scrapping existing tooling than to justify the development of new products and there are enough owners of K-mount and 645 lenses in the world to keep the current 4 ILC models from being discontinued for a very long time.

I don't see obsolescence of third party components in Pentax cameras being a problem, either. Somebody will keep building sensors and processors and shutters and whatever else, that are compatible with the DSLRs currently in production (it isn't as if Pentax is using components completely different from other camera manufacturers, so even if the global market shrinks more that the most pessimistic predictions out there, it will still be enough to prevent the capability to build those components disappearing completely).

My personal reading of interview tea leaves is that there aren't very many technical barriers to upgrading any of Pentax's camera bodies, but Ricoh isn't investing very much in developing upgraded bodies, so we will have to endure a lot of teasing before we are able to get our hands on something new and better and when we do get something new and better, it won't be as great as we were anticipating. Oh well, this isn't the best time to be switching systems, other manufacturers aren't exactly setting the photography world on fire, so there is no need to dump all of our Pentax gear before it becomes worthless.
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 06-19-2019, 05:46 PM  
New Sony APS-C Sensor - 26MP
Posted By RGlasel
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It is a minor inconvenience with the focus ring on the DA 18-135, I need to put my fingers on the sides, not the top, to manually focus this lens. I almost never use quick-shift so I can't use this as an excuse to buy a new body. The DA 16-85 has a wider barrel than the 18-135, but I don't have that lens, so I can't complain about it either. Both of my non-Pentax lens fit fine.
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 06-18-2019, 03:07 PM  
New Sony APS-C Sensor - 26MP
Posted By RGlasel
Replies: 1,219
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:) Well, you are persistent, I have to give you credit for that.


Patents (or applications for patents) that have already celebrated a couple of birthdays don't excite me too much. Ground-breaking technological advances in higher end digital cameras are a major selling point, there is no point in a manufacturer parking a patent if its technology is close to being ready for commercialization. It isn't as if the manufacturer can't start marketing a product because the patent hasn't been approved Patents for hybrid viewfinders have been filed to protect research that hasn't produced a practical system yet, just in case another manufacturer figures out how to produce a practical system. Sorry.
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