Chaitanya S
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No SDXC slot 
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Re: Pentax K-5 announced and previewed
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Henrik Melander
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SDXC memory card compatibility (via firmware update).
No SDXC slot
So if they could give the K-5 SDXC support with FW they could do that with the K-7 also but I don't think FW alone could do that like SD to SDHC IMHO.
Zebooka
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I do. SDXC and SDHC are different only in terms of maximum speed rate of transfer, while addressing technique is the same. On the other hand SD and SDHC are far more different in internal structure.
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As others have said, it's a simple software update.
It seems they were working very hard till the very last second to issue the K-5. PR details are all over the place, all sources claim different things. I bet even Ned Bunnell was working overtime for months, driving teams around, making them sandwiches, fruit salads and squeezing orange juices, buying Cokes, burning midnight oil in AF calibration and testing WR seals by splashing test K-5 models with coffee spilt in hysterical laughter.
Two days before the K-5 announcement Pentax has also posted news they're found a new partner in PR -- I ask myself why? %-)
In that overall confusion they've also forgot one, perhaps most important thing of all: to double up K-5's buffer size. Pity that can't be solved with a software update -- say by deleting some funny software filters and freeing up that memory space in favour to buffer size, but it can be sorted out if they do listen well before commencing with production ...
It seems they were working very hard till the very last second to issue the K-5. PR details are all over the place, all sources claim different things. I bet even Ned Bunnell was working overtime for months, driving teams around, making them sandwiches, fruit salads and squeezing orange juices, buying Cokes, burning midnight oil in AF calibration and testing WR seals by splashing test K-5 models with coffee spilt in hysterical laughter.
Two days before the K-5 announcement Pentax has also posted news they're found a new partner in PR -- I ask myself why? %-)
In that overall confusion they've also forgot one, perhaps most important thing of all: to double up K-5's buffer size. Pity that can't be solved with a software update -- say by deleting some funny software filters and freeing up that memory space in favour to buffer size, but it can be sorted out if they do listen well before commencing with production ...
Chaitanya S wrote:
No SDXC slot
Tord S Eriksson
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Chaitanya S
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Who need those funny-filters in camera worth 1600US$. I want to see it perform better than Nikon D300/D300s and Canon EOS 7D in low light when I am paying that kind of money.It seems they were working very hard till the very last second to issue the K-5. PR details are all over the place, all sources claim different things. I bet even Ned Bunnell was working overtime for months, driving teams around, making them sandwiches, fruit salads and squeezing orange juices, buying Cokes, burning midnight oil in AF calibration and testing WR seals by splashing test K-5 models with coffee spilt in hysterical laughter.
Two days before the K-5 announcement Pentax has also posted news they're found a new partner in PR -- I ask myself why? %-)
In that overall confusion they've also forgot one, perhaps most important thing of all: to double up K-5's buffer size. Pity that can't be solved with a software update -- say by deleting some funny software filters and freeing up that memory space in favour to buffer size, but it can be sorted out if they do listen well before commencing with production ...
Chaitanya S wrote:
No SDXC slot
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Chaitanya
Those filters are not too bad; many photographers today forget what it was like taking photographs 15+ years ago where humans still valued expressiveness of photographs, not mere technical values and specs like we digital zombies today.
However, re price, that price isn't final. It seems K-5 will hit the very similar street price as the Nikon's D7000, perhaps some $50-$100 more, because it does offer a bit more. K-5 is a D300-class camera, and will surely beat D300 ISO-wise. But then, we're talking about different systems and people foolishly tend to think everyone else's best should match Nikon's or Canon's worst.
General impression from Photokina was that Nikon has caught everyone by surprise with a D7000. Note the confusion in Pentax camp too: it seems Pentax was officially aiming at ISO 12,800 as the K-5 spec in data sheets, but due to D7000's price and overall competitiveness, they pushed that number a bit higher, into ISO 51K and are changing different specs in data-sheets during the last few days like mad. K-5 is still in its late development stages.
This will be a crazy month for them. I think we haven't yet seen final K-5 specs or the final price.
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