Note the D3 is the camera whose performance I'm quoting at the end of my previous post. Its performance is incredible, but also far more than I have any actual need for, especially with SR.
When the 5D was the current high-ISO king, people were saying you couldn't get that type of performance from cropped sensors. Well now we can, and said people just raise the bar. A FF Pentax with D3 level performance would be nice. But Pentax doesn't play in that market (high-end 35mm) and never really has outside of the LX. Pentax would do better to bring back the 645D program than pursue a market that would require an entirely new line of lenses (Pentax would need to introduce a full set of FF zooms, and possible a full set of FF lenses if they intend to do SR on FF) as well as a new body. -Adam P. J. Alling wrote: > Yep, that's why the new Nikon D3 has been cited has having superior > noise performance at very high sensitivities. Same argument always made > with film bigger is better. Physics dictates that a larger sensor site > is better than a smaller site. You can correct with software, (or > firmware if it's done on the sensor, but even then bigger will still be > better). Take off the blinders and smell the photons. > > Adam Maas wrote: >> That's not necessarily so. The newest crop of APS-C-ish sensors (In the >> D300, A700 and 40D) have noise performance as good or better than the >> last crop of FF sensors. 5D level noise performance is good enough for >> me (As much as I'd like ISO 25,600 as my max ISO and ISO 6400 >> performance that rivals ISO 1600 on a 5D, I don't need it.) >> >> -Adam >> >> >> P. J. Alling wrote: >> >>> If Pentax doesn't address sensor size in the K mount line they'll still >>> be only second rate no matter how many nifty new lenses and bodies they >>> introduce. I can live with slower frame rates, I can deal with noisy >>> autofocus, (heck my low light walking around kit consists of three >>> lenses and only one is autofocus anyway. The only way to have high >>> resolution with minimum noise even with world class image processing is >>> larger sensor sites, and that matters more to me than almost any other >>> improvements in autofocus, frame rates or additional "features". Olympus >>> has boxed themselves in with the 4:3 system, Pentax hasn't done that yet. >>> >>> Thibouille wrote: >>> >>>> I know you won't be able to tell what if you're under NDA but >>>> sometimes the NDA allows you to say you're actually under NDA (I know >>>> it sounds confused ^^) >>>> >>>> Why do I ask? >>>> Interesting rumours from Pentaxforums where 3 people supposedly in the >>>> know do hint at very nice things coming in January. I do not trus much >>>> two of those but IMO Richard Day has a good reputation in my book. >>>> >>>> For those who wants to read (means you want run away from rumours) here it >>>> is: >>>> http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-releases/13173-pentax-news-something-interesting-really.html >>>> >>>> For those who do not like rumours: there's nothing new. There no >>>> CMOS-not -from-Sony-coming-soon. You can go back to sleep ;) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
