Hi Photographer friends,
Nikon just announced their new flagship DSLR, the D4. I'm a Pentax user and why do I post this announcement about Nikon? Check the D4 on B&H Photo.
This new announcement from Nikon sends a clear message...to me anyway. They are using the FX sensor for this camera. but it's only 16.2 MP. This is a clear message that the Full Frame megapixels sensors are over-rated. Technology has come a long way and APS-C sensors are capable of taking better images than what our eyes can see. This full frame non-sense was the way manufacturers got away cheap by making the old 35mm film format the defacto standard of what full frame should be and a way to reuse the 35mm format lenses.
Every sensor is a full frame sensor, it's the lenses used that are not matching the sensor. Nikon has chosen a 16.2 megapixel CMOS sensor. 16.2 megapixels is good enough for 99% + of the time and produces file sizes easily manipulated with today's computers for post-processing.
This new announcement from Nikon sends a clear message...to me anyway. They are using the FX sensor for this camera. but it's only 16.2 MP. This is a clear message that the Full Frame megapixels sensors are over-rated. Technology has come a long way and APS-C sensors are capable of taking better images than what our eyes can see. This full frame non-sense was the way manufacturers got away cheap by making the old 35mm film format the defacto standard of what full frame should be and a way to reuse the 35mm format lenses.
Every sensor is a full frame sensor, it's the lenses used that are not matching the sensor. Nikon has chosen a 16.2 megapixel CMOS sensor. 16.2 megapixels is good enough for 99% + of the time and produces file sizes easily manipulated with today's computers for post-processing.
Pentax is the smartest camera maker out there. They use APC-C sensors or Medium format like the 645D. They were ridiculed for making color camera bodies, but now the entire industry does. They designed the "Q" and once again ridiculed, but Nikon copied the concept immediately.
Long live Pentax :)
3 comments:
I fully agree with this statement - from my perspective, the K-5 is actually a camera that can be compared to the most recent full frame cameras from Canon and Nikon. My Canon and Nikon friends first smiled about the size of the K-5, but after a while of shooting together and exchanging cameras (I always miss my K-5 then ...) they had to admit that the size of the K-5 is just great.
As for the Q-system: This is clever stroke and the Q is fully misunderstood by many people: The Q is not an approach for semi-professional photographers, but it is adding a system of lenses to a compact size camera. From my perspective, a bridge camera is rather weird (because I could get a K-r instead ...), but the Q isn't! The logical next thing will be the announcement of the new mirrorless APS-C K-system camera, similar to the Sony NEX-7. Pentax will announce this today at the CES (or not? Let's see ...). This will be between K-r and K-5 and their successors and might first replace the entry level DSLR and may be even the upper level DSLR (though I still think that a pure optical viewfinder is preferable for some reasons - I love it ...).
Eriol
I fully agree with this statement - from my perspective, the K-5 is actually a camera that can be compared to the most recent full frame cameras from Canon and Nikon. My Canon and Nikon friends first smiled about the size of the K-5, but after a while of shooting together and exchanging cameras (I always miss my K-5 then ...) they had to admit that the size of the K-5 is just great.
As for the Q-system: This is clever stroke and the Q is fully misunderstood by many people: The Q is not an approach for semi-professional photographers, but it is adding a system of lenses to a compact size camera. From my perspective, a bridge camera is rather weird (because I could get a K-r instead ...), but the Q isn't! The logical next thing will be the announcement of the new mirrorless APS-C K-system camera, similar to the Sony NEX-7. Pentax will announce this today at the CES (or not? Let's see ...). This will be between K-r and K-5 and their successors and might first replace the entry level DSLR and may be even the upper level DSLR (though I still think that a pure optical viewfinder is preferable for some reasons - I love it ...).
Eriol
I disagree with your remarks on FF cameras, both Nikon and Canon are making FF cameras with less mp and the reason is to improve low light capabilities, I noticed a large jump in IQ when I moved from APS-C to full frame, I keep seeing this remark from the Pentax camp and it was so from the Nikon camp until they introduced the D3. The larger the sensor the better the IQ all else being equal. Just look at the Pentax MF for proof.
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