On 9/10/2010 2:23 PM, eckinator wrote:
I guess that might just be the upgraded versions of the K-7/K-x that people are talking about and certainly sooner or later the mirrorless system that Pentax said they have under way. I doubt it will come with a fully functional K mount adaptor though - that or it will have a fully electronic mount and a very costly adaptor with an electromechanic aperture actuator. Personally, I am still hoping for the DA*11-16/2.8 or at least WR versions of some of their existing glass... Cheers Ecke
Right, each of us would have their own specific desire for a specific lens (e.g. what you said or that rumored Tokina 16.5-1x5) or a specific camera feature. E.g. that rumor that Pentax will introduce new flashes and enable 1/250 sync speed created a bit of a stir on PentaxForums. Evidently some photographers find it very important.
I should also point out that I made a passing comment there that perhaps Pentax will introduce some kind of wireless image transfer system and so they did. Though /personally/ I find IR rather deprecated technology for this kind of things, but go figure.
Finally, everyone has their own specific rhythm or tempo of upgrades of their cameras. Some, like Paul Stenquist shoot really a lot and have a chance to upgrade often. Some, like me, got started from *istD, and so they upgrade every other major upgrade (*istD, K10D, K-7) as opposed to K20D and K-5 respectively. I can see many people having K10D's and K20D's and holding up so far, but now upgrading to this new camera like I did from K10D to K-7. At this moment, I see no reason to upgrade until any of my camera bodies breaks down. However K10D is not being used as intensively as it used to be and with just 4 years and 22,000+ exposures it is still going very strong.
This holiday season I decided we needed to make a number of prints for Galia and our family album. I should say that images from K10D are just brilliant. I am printing 13x18 cm (5x7 inches, or something like that).
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