On 9/27/2010 4:23 PM, William Robb wrote:
I read PentaxForums from time to time. You want to see a more snivelling bunch of airheads than them, you'd have to put 2000 little kids in a room with a big bowl of candy, and take the bowl away before any of them get to it. They whine because the K-x has better low light performance than the K-7, they pillory Pentax because their entry level camera is better than the top end one. They look at that one performance specification and build lineal yards of scrolling around what a bunch of idiots Pentax is because in one specification, Pentax did really well, paying no attention whatsoever to all the other things that the camera doesn't do as well at. It like having a whole group of ADHD anal retentives in the same room griping about how the new caramel Mars bar isn't as nice as the white chocolate Mars bar because there is goo inside the caramel bar. Go over to the Canon forums and you will read pissing and moaning because the 18mp monster isn't producing as sharp a picture as the 15 mp monster did. Meanwhile at Nikon, they seem to just quietly go about the business of taking pictures with their cameras. It's very refreshing.
I am thinking from my limited experience at PentaxForums that this community is simply very very big. So bit is its active posters count that the quality becomes quantity and a few unsatisfied individuals cause major whining. Although I don't see too much whining over there just yet.
By the way, if 15MP camera from Canon is a monster then so qualifies K-5 as well ;-).
You're absolutely right however that camera bodies are more and more geekified, in a manner of speaking and as such geekification begets moaning.
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