Which mount will get cancelled first? (poll)
Oh well, most people believes that the Pentax Q-mount will get killed and eliminated first! I don't think so anyway as a majority of new comers who are buying a new ILDC knew nothing about the sensor size! The appearance of the Q could be appealing anyway, as it is just considerably smaller than what are being offered in the market. After all, I think time will tell!
For me, I might buy that Nikon "X810", to replace my old Fuji F810, which I bought in the old days to complement my *ist D. But for years, I seldom use the Fuji actually:-
Do note that the F810 has a 1/1.7" sensor which is equivalent to a 4.4X focal length multiplier and yet still better than that of the Q, which is in 5.5X.
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Chris · 711 weeks ago
This "news" is just badmouthing. You are lowering your standards. Why are you doing this, there is no need to beat on a company that is being sold for the second time and has been through difficult times.
Also, if Pentax indeed goes bankrupt (which you seem to hope and are definitely working for), we are all left with one less choice in the camera market. We will then have the choice between Sony "playstation" alpha, Nikon "pro pro pro, HEAVY, expensive and arrogant", Canon "mass-product, plastic all-over, bad GUIs" and Olympus "we use the smallest sensor in the biggest camera". This is not the camera world I wish to have. Therefore, I wish Pentax a good start, maybe Ricoh is a better owner than Hoya was, but Hoya was not bad for Pentax, in this point I am positive.
Back to your badmouthing blog. You are definitely missing the other - the good - news.
E.g., why don't you post at least ONE article on the fantastic concept of the O-GPS1 unit Pentax has launched this month? Here is my draft for a good article that you could post, this time a positive one for a change...:
I have bought an O-GPS1 and I am fascinated by the perfectionism that was involved in the creation of this unit:
(i) the user interface could not be simpler - the firmware behaves as if the device was integrated in the camera body
(ii) not only GPS coordinates but also shooting direction is stored in the pictures, plus the camera automatically detects the universal time (UTC) and even the time zone. In other words, this unit is utilizing the GPS idea to the maximum extent possible.
(iii) wonderful extra feature "simple navigation", may be useful to exactly come back to a location where an image was shot previously, e.g. if you want to take exactly the same landscape shot one year later.
(iv) very innovative special feature for astrophotography: ASTROTRACING, a perpetual Xmas for us night sky photographers. This is an integrated "virtual equatorial mount", making the K-5 the first camera in the world that can do sharp bulb shots of the night sky without the need for a separate, heavy and complicated externally-driven mount that compensates for the rotation of earth.
Remark: this last feature CANNOT be matched by even the most expensive Nikon, Canon, Sony or Olympus camera because none of those has a movable sensor (their shake reduction mechanism relies on prisms inside the LENS not the body, and by construction these cannot correct for rotations).
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RiceHigh 110p · 711 weeks ago
Btw, if you want to write articles about the good sides of Pentax, I had opened up the channel before, here it is:-
http://pentaxfanboys.blogspot.com/
And, the last article by Steve is well written and it tells a good reason for why Pentax, i.e., to be different. It's your take now. You're encouraged to join and you can post your above O-GPS1 review with your own opinions, preferably with some more photos for illustration, at that my another blog! You do not need to ask me for what I should write anymore, as you can write yourself on your own!
Just drop me an email for your Google account and I shall see you there! And, if you really make your first post there, I shall make a new post here to inform all my readers to read your that post! I promise. Okay? :-)
Chris · 711 weeks ago
I did not forget your post about the O-GPS1 - it was about a nonconsequential observation about the SR systems of K-5 and K-r. You did not say anything about the new product and its extraordinary features.
If you suggest my post should rather go to "your other blog" pentaxfanboys, you imply that positive posts had better not go into this blog. Why?
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RiceHigh 110p · 711 weeks ago
P.S. I really want to see the first detailed O-GPS1 user review on the Internet. AFAIK, there is not one so far. Previously there was a post at DPR with some brief photos about the operations and user impressions of the unit, but I think it is just not enough. Well, I want to see also the final results, i.e., the photos the unit helps to produce.