Re: Mirrorless rumours
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:21 am
I tip my hat to Pentax on this one 100% Prism VF, dual dials and most of what you want (they don't have a DOF preview button I don't think you can assign that to the green button which limits it's use)
Prices look ok, not sure they needed 2 bodies.
I like what I see, but..
Marketing wise Pentax don't really need yet another 16mp DSLR, and sadly marketing talks here. Nikon will sell a load of D3200's, with tiny poor viewfinders, cut down feature set (esp flash) and not that great handling (lack of dedicated controls WB etc) just on the 24mp alone. I don't agree with it, but that's how thing pan out.
So I don't see this making much difference for Pentax.
The other problem with Pentax is the lens range, prices have gone up a lot (more than anyone else), yes some nice lenses..but they lack affordable fast primes (which even Sony have) Note how well the new Canon 40mm f2.8 pancake is selling at £150 flying off the shelves even with the nasty focus by wire. Pentax 40mm f2.8 yes nice build (metal) costs £350 odd. Pentax 21mm f3.2 a slow lens and costing £420.
They had a bash at more affordable primes with the 35mm f2.4, but it's 3/4 of a stop slower than the f1.8 ones. They did a 50mm f1.8 that nobody seems to stock, priced at just under £200 which is pretty high for a budget prime. 70mm f2.4 over £500 and again slower than the normal lenses from Canikon at f1.8 (85mm)
I'm just not convinced on the lens range, and forget about ebay AF bargains Pentax have very few lenses compared to the many Minolta ones out there for good prices (most of them) I'd love to see Sony copy them body wise I think they should, but this isn't going to make much difference to Pentax overall. I still find it hard to recommend anyone look at Pentax based on my own experiences with the company...I doubt I will look at them again.
Bottom line is you can build a system hitting ebay and buying up some decent Minolta stuff for a near song price wise. You just can't do that with Pentax, and IMO you can't do it as well with Canikon either.
Prices look ok, not sure they needed 2 bodies.
I like what I see, but..
Marketing wise Pentax don't really need yet another 16mp DSLR, and sadly marketing talks here. Nikon will sell a load of D3200's, with tiny poor viewfinders, cut down feature set (esp flash) and not that great handling (lack of dedicated controls WB etc) just on the 24mp alone. I don't agree with it, but that's how thing pan out.
So I don't see this making much difference for Pentax.
The other problem with Pentax is the lens range, prices have gone up a lot (more than anyone else), yes some nice lenses..but they lack affordable fast primes (which even Sony have) Note how well the new Canon 40mm f2.8 pancake is selling at £150 flying off the shelves even with the nasty focus by wire. Pentax 40mm f2.8 yes nice build (metal) costs £350 odd. Pentax 21mm f3.2 a slow lens and costing £420.
They had a bash at more affordable primes with the 35mm f2.4, but it's 3/4 of a stop slower than the f1.8 ones. They did a 50mm f1.8 that nobody seems to stock, priced at just under £200 which is pretty high for a budget prime. 70mm f2.4 over £500 and again slower than the normal lenses from Canikon at f1.8 (85mm)
I'm just not convinced on the lens range, and forget about ebay AF bargains Pentax have very few lenses compared to the many Minolta ones out there for good prices (most of them) I'd love to see Sony copy them body wise I think they should, but this isn't going to make much difference to Pentax overall. I still find it hard to recommend anyone look at Pentax based on my own experiences with the company...I doubt I will look at them again.
Bottom line is you can build a system hitting ebay and buying up some decent Minolta stuff for a near song price wise. You just can't do that with Pentax, and IMO you can't do it as well with Canikon either.