IMO, they need to come out with a full spec pro body that at least competes with a Canon EOS 5D MKII, or even better a Nikon D3X.
I don't understand what the AF issue is technologically. For one still being on the screw-drive. You'd think they could license the the technology if they couldn't design it. Possibly it all comes down to a lack of funding? Tom C. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:55 AM, William Robb <war...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralf R. Radermacher" > Subject: Re: K-7 replacement? > > > William Robb <war...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hoya seems to have knocked some sense into them >> over the past few years. > > Like improving the finger painting filters in the K-7's firmware instead > of ironing out the most blatant bugs? > > I'm afraid the opposite is true. > > I guess we'll have to wait for the first products to be completely > developed under Hoya's control to see where Pentax is heading. Mind you, > everything "new" we've seen since the take-over has still been developed > in the olden days of Pentax. > > The only signs of Hoya's handwriting I can see so far are digital > kindergarden filters in the K-7, the various hello kitty colour schemes > the K-x is sold in, a medium-format camera made especially for landscape > photographers without a single wide-angle lense in sight, and the > destruction of their exemplary service organisation in most parts of > Europe. Not much to be proud of, in my book. > > > All granted, though I recall the bugs you are talking about relate mostly to > DFS, which might well be a necessity with the sensor in the K7. > I can't speak to the digital filters, I don't use them anyway. > We might need to wait for the 645D to start being delivered before we know > exactly what lenses they have planned for it. I suspect that they got rather > burned when they put the 60-250 on the roadmap and then taking a couple of > years longer to deliver it than they said they would. > I presume that the European service got centralized into a single centre, > much like what happened with the USA? > Some things are just to expensive to keep. > > Thise Hello Kitty K-xs are flying off the shelf. Whether or not you like the > concept yourself, it seems to be successful. > Anyway, if Pentax had been doing everything right, they would still be an > independant camera maker. > The fact is, the camera division was losing money before Hoya, enough that > the takeover was necessary for the survival of the company, and last I > heard, it actually made some money for Hoya. > >> From a business pespective, this is not a bad thing. > > William Robb > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
