----- Original Message ----- From: "David Savage"
Subject: Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame
And this is what any future Pentax FF DSLR has to live up too. It wouldn't be enough to just put a FF sensor in a camera with the K20D or K7 level of technology. Pentax would have to, IMHO, raise their technical standards much higher than they have previously. As I've said in the past, it doesn't matter how sharp a lens is, or how beautiful the bokeh, or how well the lens handles flare if the fucking photo is out of focus because the AF couldn't keep up or there is so much noise it looks like the shot was taken during a sand storm.
Unfortunately, the common wisdom seems to be that if you can't make the photo with a Pentax you are a crap photographer who needs to gain more skills, or that epic fail of apologism, that being the Pentax sits several hundred dollars under the price of the competition, so the comparison isn't a valid one.
I've run into this attitude a number of times with the no mind fanbois on PentaxForums and to both of these pearls, I call bullshit..
With the K7, they've come part way in that the exposure system can now mostly be trusted (a first for Pentax), with the K-x they seem to have solved some of the noise issues, but they had to walk away from Samsung to do it, but they still haven't addressed their really big technological failing, which is the AF system, which was lifted bodily out of the *ist film camera and has seen, at best, a few minor tweaks over the past decade or so since it was released. The AF is still slow, and it's accuracy is dodgy at best. In my portrait work I find that I have to shoot at f/8 to have any hope of securing something close to being in focus most of the time.
You are right, going forwards, these issues must be resolved before going to a 135 format camera, as there is absolutely no point in putting an expensive sensor into a camera that performs at the level that the K7 is capable of.
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