 Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:37 am Post subject: |
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ChrisLilley wrote:
| Spotmatic wrote: |
Believe it or not, but Pentax is still the same! The K-x was touted by Dpreview as being the best High-ISO camera from ALL the current APS-C cameras, regardless of the brand and price level. |
Interesting. DXOMark has yet to test the K-X but [url=http://dxomark.com/index.php/eng/Image-Quality-Database/Compare-cameras/%28appareil1%29/330|0/%28appareil2%29/294|0/%28onglet%29/0/%28brand%29/Pentax/%28brand2%29/Nikon]K7 vs. D90[/url] shows a clear win for the D90 (which beats the D300 and all other Nikon APS-C cameras).
Sigh, forum software does not like that long web address, it seems. Go to http://dxomark.com/ and navigate from there, I guess.
| Spotmatic wrote: |
| Or do we all want Pentax to produce 'me too' cameras? They'd be dead by now. I'd rather Pentax keeps producing trendsetting cameras. Like the K-7, which is quite undervalued and underestimated (although I see that there are regions in which it sells very well, such as Scandinavia where it is in the top 3 of online sales). Just have a look at its specs... It has quite a few industry-firsts packed in that small body. |
I agree that carving their own niche is a better plan than being a third player in the Canon vs. Nikon race. Medium format is somewhere they have already a good reputation, and the existing digital MF is high priced and underperforming. So maybe they can do well there. It really depends on how big that somewhat specialised market is and what it wants to spend (large amounts of) money on.
For the consumer DSLR, its good to see that Pentax did not criple their cameras to only work with the latest lenses. You still get metering, for example (D90 has no metering except with CPU-enabled lenses, and no DOF preview except with CPU-enabled ones, too. You do at least get focus confirm with the Nikons. Canon disabled that as well for non-chipped lenses.) A friend has a K100D and it meters with some older lenses (although the ones with dots on the mount are CPU enabled, right?)
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