I feel the same. If my K10D had an AF assist lamp then it would be pretty much a perfect camera to me. I don't understand how my 4 year old Fuji F810 point and shoot compact can have an AF assist lamp built in and my new, modern, 'state of the art' DSLR doesn't.
Actually, it is possible if the new sensor has a sufficiently higher "fill rate", that is, if the area of the surface devoted to the actual photosites is larger. Then each photosite would be as large or larger than on the current 10 MP Sony sensor.
I think that a FF sensor from Pentax is not going to happen in the near future. They simply couldn't supply the needed redesigned FF WA lenses.
What program?
Often i use my car to drive to shoots so I should not drink anyway, therefore no priority.will it open my beer bottles and play MP3's??
Well, not everyone, only guys like you with some Pentax insight
Must be difficult finding statements like that, not violating your NDA and not being wrong. Could it be a crop mode with higher fps... c´mon, you can tell...
lol, you got me there! Not sure it would be fantastic though to carry a DSLR with a 40' (noticed the 2*' ?) screen....especially if youre on crutches!
Samsung...also does P-TTL!
Dunno, maybe you lost them when you tripped over the wires.
That would be great.
Often i use my car to drive to shoots so I should not drink anyway,will it open my beer bottles and play MP3's??
therefore no priority.
However, I would welcome the idea of built in toilet paper!!!!
Nature shooters often have to respond to the call of nature.
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Pentax has changed the namming convention with the Optio serie.
Pentax began work on new sensor in 2004, then I didn't heard about it again. Until now. It seems like it is ready to release it now. Why designing their own sensor?
It seems to me that you are assuming that the sensor uses the Bayer colour pattern.
It is APS-C full frame, but not 24x36 full frame.
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. It's definitely a nice camera and it's not "big" (relative) either . But as I haven't used Olympus on a regular basis, all those buttons is something to get used to . I have no idea about the accuracy of the focus but it was fast... thus their claim to be the fastest AF might seem quite okay so far (in so so decent light at least). In comparison to the D3 and D300, I can't say, as their lenses were arger. But using the D3 was like a darn "movie" as well, with their AF zone focal points. Pretty neat stuff!. Let's just see how it goes. If Pentax can refine a lot of the things they already have an make them even better and efficient, that'd be great. It's also probably what most would love, as opposed to having a tonne of new features and still the "same" or at least "similar" performance .
This is my understanding:
With a CCD the "bucket" is large in relation to the size of the pixel, the Light well makes up a large portion of the Pixel, while with a CMOS it makes a very small portion of the pixel, the rest is made up of circuitry. If the circuitry could be reduced the size of the "bucket" could be increased, Samsung are working on a CMOS technology where the circuits are underneath the light well, making it posible for the light well to be as large as the pixel.
--So, I think you're both wrong ;-]
To get another stop of DR with changing only the capacitor, you'd
need to double the capacitance. This would double the capacitor size.
Space is at a premium on APSC I suspect. You could shrink the
micro-lens, but then you'd increase noise.
If you don't believe me, look at the Fuji high DR camera, the F700.
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Gunn
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Jolly good! Wouldn't that be nice?
If that were the case, then fine - the subject would be moot.
