paulkienitz

Doesn't mean it isn't a crucial factor in what people end up buying. That's the trouble with this kind of business decision.  In the present, there is no valid business case and moving to FF just...

I've never BIFfed with a 500mm, but I've done it with 400mm handheld, and it's entirely manageable if you're patient.  One of the most productive ways to go about it is to use catch-in-focus.  That...

With the short distances needed to get these shots with the 01 lens, the Q's little onboard flash might make itself useful.  Dunno about what kind of effective exposure duration that would give...

Yeah -- the only way the big archaic design of the 560/5.6 makes sense is if the result is performance superior to the compact designs, which from what I've heard so far, it doesn't...

I've used Paint Shop Pro since version 5, and always found it clearer and easier than what little I could manage to learn of Photoshop... though as it's gotten more serious as a Photoshop...

I was just doing a bunch of desert red-rock shooting with a polarizer on a 17-70 zoom, and the variation across the sky is pretty noticeable long before you get as wide as 14mm.  I do not know yet...

Ten to one, the reason the subject hates the picture has nothing to do with anything you can change with better photographic technique.

Those are impressive results!  I've occasionally managed to shoot swallows with a K10D, but your images are better.  I'll have to try that with the Q+02 someday.

Last year the K-01 has some good arguments for claiming that it was the best mirrorless camera you could buy.  No other had a superior image quality or anywhere near as deep a lens selection....

But yipe, they've listed the 645D as "in stock"!

In the East Bay, Sarber's and Looking Glass had some back in the day, but I think Pentax under Hoya pretty much killed off any presence in real camera stores.  Keeble and Shuchat would probably be...

No, it's the same, if you just use f8 instead of f5.6.  Which brings up the point that FF gives you a larger range of DOF choices.  The smaller the sensor, the less you can stop down the lens...

FF will always be superior to smaller sensors, not just in noise and DOF control, but in sharpness.  Because lens sharpness cannot be scaled with size.  You can't take a large high-quality lens,...

Even if that's true, then the last SLRs to die will be the biggest and most expensive and highest margined.

That's why I hope Pentax does not go in that direction -- because there'll soon be half a dozen competitors.  By going the traditional route, they'll have only the two, and there are plenty of...

Sony may try to keep the A-mount going, but if they're selling bodies on which the A-mount offers no advantage at all over the E-mount, and the latter is the one that sells better, I think we know...

But do you really want to bet it's not going to happen?  Even if you play it safe and don't guess any further out than two product generations from now, that's a wager with some risk.

We may be using different concepts of "soon".  You're looking at the short term trend, which has seen little recent price movement for FF.  I'm looking longer term, where I see that FF has first...

Because they've done pretty well at making crop-sensored traditional SLRs with competitive performance and value, and that market is now moving inevitably toward FF. Anybody who wants an EVF will...

There's a rumor out there that Pentax's forthcoming full frame is going to dump the K-mount for something incompatible.  If so, then we will indeed soon have only two traditional mounts. On the...