giellaleafapmu
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This is a forum with many Pentax lover and user but I haven't heard much talking about the soon to come FF from them. Am I the only one who is waiting with some interest? I doubt that I shall change system for theirs but in the APS realm they got some really attractive offer, if the price is low enough...
GLF
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charjohncarter
Veteran
No, you are not the only one, unless the FF is the size of a Canon FF I will buy the Pentax. I don't have much use for it but I have the dinero and I don't care for golf, Rollex watches, or expensive cars.
giellaleafapmu
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Neither do I, but then there are so many other things to buy...traveling, MF gear, a larger house...
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it'sawhat?
Established
Haven't looked to see but pentax forums is probably full of talk about it. Love pentax but I'm a film using dinosaur.
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
Curious, I'm very curious after all this time, what can Pentax have up to their sleeve?
NeonKnight
Established
I hope so. Pentax has some legendary lenses and it would be great to have the opportunity to shoot them full frame. The FA 77mm is one of my all-time favorites.
aizan
Veteran
at this point in the game, pentax is going to have to make a compact yet extremely well designed dslr to compete with the likes of the sony a7rii and fuji x-t1 and forthcoming x-pro2. they're also going to have to plan lens releases perfectly. they've put it off for so long that i don't think they can afford any slip-ups.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
I used Pentax gear for several years and it performed reasonably well, most of the time. But I found their quality control somewhat uneven, both bodies and lenses, and ultimately preferred Olympus gear on that basis. Now that I've upped my ante back to Leica and Nikon, nothing Pentax is producing is relevant any longer.
The Pentax FA43/1.9 and FA77/1.8 Limiteds were the best lenses they offered that I had, the 43 in particular, and I understand they might be discontinued now.
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The Pentax FA43/1.9 and FA77/1.8 Limiteds were the best lenses they offered that I had, the 43 in particular, and I understand they might be discontinued now.
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giellaleafapmu
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at this point in the game, pentax is going to have to make a compact yet extremely well designed dslr to compete with the likes of the sony a7rii and fuji x-t1 and forthcoming x-pro2. they're also going to have to plan lens releases perfectly. they've put it off for so long that i don't think they can afford any slip-ups.
From the mock-ups it seems that it would rather be a classical DSLR design, with a prism and so on, and I am happy if it is that way. The ability of using all sort of legacy lenses is nice sometimes but there are other times when having a fast autofocus, tracking capability, weather sealed body and so on it actully needed. In fact, I don't see why one would need a new mirrorless body with the same sluggish autofocus and which once you have mounted a lens is actually almost as heavy as a full sized DSLR each five mounths as Sony seems to think. Ok, each time the pixel count becomes higher but probably people using old lenses are not really using them because of their resolving power, so 25 or 35 or 50 is actually the same. I might eventually also get one of these "mount-them-all" body but that will be one to be used for a long long timejust the way I now use my Ricoh GXR. On the other hand if they get a rugged body capable of some 7 fps and with a decent image quality at the right price they can have my money. Actually, rumors seem to say it will use a Sony 42 Mpx sensor and have a APS mode capable of decent speed. If the rumors prove to be right and there is nothing strange (shutter exploding, sensor self-destroying, who can say?) they seem to be going for a do-it-all design which can easily become the only camera in teh bag.
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jarski
Veteran
The wait has been so long that probably only diehard Pentax fans are still excited. What the latest rumors now say?
I'm interested, but only if Pentax makes nice small primes for it.
uhoh7
Veteran
If it has a prism and long register.....well that will be tough to sell many.
A good EVIL FF, short register, with a film lens friendly sensor would be another matter.
A good EVIL FF, short register, with a film lens friendly sensor would be another matter.
f16sunshine
Moderator
If it leads to full frame Ricoh GR versions I'm supporting!
A full frame GXR module camera would also be most welcome!
A full frame GXR module camera would also be most welcome!
giellaleafapmu
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May I ask why all the obsession with a short register mirrorless. When it didn't exist we couldn't mount our old lenses on anything, now there are a couple of options, what could possibly be more interesting in the Pentax offering? Not AF because it is not there, not price because Sonys are already pretty cheap (especially the model from three mounts ago with only 35 Mpx), so what? For me a new FF platform is interesting or it is not interesting if it has something to offer in general. In APS Pentax has cheaper bodies which are completely sealed, small primes and a few long lenses which are cheaper than the corresponding Canicon offers, if that remain true for the FF body that would be enough. Sometimes just having one lens at a lower price justify buying the body.
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uhoh7
Veteran
Because, if well designed it can be much much smaller than a D810 or the like. With the right sensor the whole lens set can be way smaller.
Also, the short register allows easy adaptability, for those who like lenses.
Sorry, I'm obsessive about not dragging monster DLSRs everywhere.
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
+100 to this.
A full-frame GR will put me in front of the pre-order queue.
Ideally with a pop-up OVF in place of the useless tiny flash. I can even live with EVF.
Back to DSLR world, I think Pentax could turn heads with a retro throwback like Nikon Df. Maybe an FF digital with the styling (if not size) of Pentax LX.
giellaleafapmu
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Yep, I understand, but these already exist from other brands and I don't see what could be better in a Pentax offering. Besides, really the size thing is nor really there, a Sony A7 with a pancake maybe, but as soon as you put a normal lens, especially if it was designed for SLR, you get a camera which is already not really small. Once you had that you need a couple of couple of batteries to match the duration of one battery in a DSLR you could as well get a more capable camera.
GLF
It sure could, but I have a feeling it'll be more like the K-3 II.
Doubtless I'm in the minority but as someone with a few M42 lenses, I rather like the idea of a full frame DSLR with in body image stabilisation to use my manual focus lenses with. I have zero interest in crop sensor bodies. Other makes of DSLR such as Canon have IS built into their lenses not their bodies.
Don't bother suggesting crop sensor or mirrorless image quality is good enough either. It has zero to do with IQ for me. Simply that taking a lens off whatever 35mm SLR I have with me and fitting it to a DSLR yielding a different angle of view would do my head in. These are not the typical reasons someone might be interested in the new Pentax, however I also know I am not the only member of this forum who feels similarly about it.
Spanik
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Probably a FF K-01
You know, there is quite a lot to say about in lens stabilisation as well. It was a very good surprise when the stabilisation of my new Canon 24-105 IS worked without a hitch on my ancient EOS RT film body. Now I have a great stabilised zoom on film.
You know, there is quite a lot to say about in lens stabilisation as well. It was a very good surprise when the stabilisation of my new Canon 24-105 IS worked without a hitch on my ancient EOS RT film body. Now I have a great stabilised zoom on film.