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P.S.: It is not documented whether the electronic shutter option was engaged for the K-1 II.

It furthermore isn't clear how sensor resolution is accounted for. A comparison at 100% magnification...

Have a look at older reviews and you may find a "Stabilization" section, e.g., like in the case of the Pentax K-1 II.

The Pentax K-1 II achieves very similar figures compared to the A7RIII and Z7...

"...cannot escape lens-induced focus-shift" without stopping down the lens to the shooting aperture which can be impractical. <- That's what I should have written; the character limit tends to put...

@otto k
I'd like to see the article you are suggesting.
@Richard Butler: How about it?

A solid low light AF comparison and a list of trade-offs would be most appreciated.

OSPDAF obviously...

@lili23 "Pentax" is not a company but a brand name. The company owning the brand name "Pentax" for photography tools (Ricoh) dwarfs Phase One in revenue.

DCamProf is available for free. You'll have to pay for a GUI version of it (Lumariver) but if you are comfortable with using a command line tool, DCamProf does the job.

@otto k
Could you point us to resources expanding on what you wrote about OSPDAF limitations?

Striping and banding are other negatives implied by OSPDAF. One hears so much about the virtues of...

Nikon does not appear to aim at portability much as there do not seem be any "pancake" lenses and a 70-200/4 is missing as well.

Also, apparently, Nikon do not target birders / sports shooters...

@entoman
I'd agree it would be "harmless fun" if the results wouldn't be referenced later on to suggest some ground truth (as in "... the XYZ already proved to be the most popular among our...

@Barney Britton
Surely, readers can vote for whatever they want, as you point out.

However, by
a) letting readers see what other have voted for already, and
b) using a "News" post to encourage...

@vscd
The Pentax K-1 achieves excellent AF accuracy and works very well in low light (-3 EV).

In comparison, low-light AF performance is not a strength of OSPDAF systems and they can exhibit...

Although I cannot see myself using an EVF, I'm glad that Panasonic recognises size as an ergonomic factor. Interesting that by implication, according to Yosuke Yamane's estimation, mirrorless...

@entoman
I don't see why the better specifications and performance game would be necessarily won by MILCS. They don't have a mirror to flop which can help with burst speeds but burst performance is...

@T3
DSLRs still have room to grow, for instance they could feature hybrid viewfinders.

Even if there weren't any further development potential, I'd still prefer a mature DSLR over a current...

@Kharan
If Ricoh decide to stick to DSLRs it is because they want to, not because they are too late to the party. Do you know how late to the party the K-1 (their first full frame camera) was?...

@Mssimo
This year marks Pentax's centennial anniversary and it is rather likely that they'll make it count with the release of a new full frame camera that we all hope will be more than just a...

The K-1 (II) definitely has its weak sides as well, but to a subset of photographers, these weak sides are irrelevant, as they don't depend on better performance in these areas.

Video, for...

@DPReview

Not pulling any punches, nice.

There is no merit to your remark about Pentaxians though, painting them as people who respond fervently to "anything short of uncritically gushing...

@Mr Bolton
That may be the case but Amazon are not paying your salary, are they? They are not a charity.

@CQui
Any legacy lens works well on a Pentax DSLR.

Pentax has one of the best, if not the best, backward-compatibility record(s).

Even M42 lenses (used by Pentax before they introduced the...