What irks me and makes me NOT so excited about any new Pentax offering is that the K10D and K20D were released to the public with some, IMO, serious flaws. Flaws so serious that my K20D is a brick on the shelf and that I would have a hard time, as others mentioned, consider giving it, much less sell it to a friend. My biggest gripe was exposure consistency and pretty much unusable images above 800 ISO. If I did sell it, it would probably garner 1/5 what I paid for it.
Pentax undoubtedly knew of these issues pre-release. So in the end, I think Pentax just wanted in my pocket (which I knew anyway). I haven't owned a K10D, so my words apply to the K20D, and anecdotally to the K10D. To be honest, I think I'm getting equal, if not better results from the Sony Nex5 as I'm getting from the K7. Tom C. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:50 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "P N Stenquist" > Subject: Re: Photokina observations... > >> I wouldn't describe Pentax is stalled. The upgrades have been continuous. >> There have never been any official rumors of a larger sensor in a Pentax >> compact DSLR body. (What's full? Al sensors are full size if they're not >> nicked or chipped.) The K5 is substantially improved over the K7. But let >> the whining begin:-) > > People seem not to realize that the competition has followed pretty much > chain of upgrades, albeit a couple of years ago. > It's quite a balancing act producing new cameras I'll bet, especially when > you are quite far behind the performance curve of the very best. > One has to improve things enough with new a model to entice the user base of > it's predecessor to buy, and also to entice people who didn't buy last time > to buy this time. > Don't put enough on and too many people wait it out and the camera dies in > it's crib, put too much on and you have wasted a future opportunity of > making sales on a future camera. > I'd like to see Pentax making bigger steps, especially with the AF, but I'll > buy the K5 for the sensor, if nothing else. > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
