Enthusiast vs pro cameras.
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magazines give preference to who pays thier bills.
I say hand me anything and I'll prove it's a pro camera.
Any DSLR released in the last 18 months would easily beat on spec and performance a DSLR built even 5 years ago.
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Currently on a Pentax hiatus until an FF Pentax is released
If they pick this up I want a FEE
I think both Smeggy and Alien are right. However coming from a Marketing/PR background, Pentax have missed a trick. To the great unwashed, a ‘Pro’ Brand creates an aspirational feel. Over many years Nikon/Olympus/Canon have played this card. In their product portfolio they have ‘top end’ kit, but then produced cheaper stuff, that the punter can buy into and thus imagine they are buying into a ‘Pro’ experience. Pentax used to promote itself as ‘Pro’ in the 60’s, but have, in recent history, seemed to be more apologetic about their offering. I do see this changing with Ricoh. But more needs to be done.
If they pick this up I want a FEE
Very well expressed.
Regards, Horst
We have seen how the Olympus trip was really loved no battery to go flat and small enough not to alert all there is some one taking photos. But in the TT that would not be the pro selection and it really does depend on what type of photography.
The enthusiast wants one camera to do all. The pro with select a camera to fit what he is doing.
I think both Smeggy and Alien are right. However coming from a Marketing/PR background, Pentax have missed a trick. To the great unwashed, a ‘Pro’ Brand creates an aspirational feel. Over many years Nikon/Olympus/Canon have played this card. In their product portfolio they have ‘top end’ kit, but then produced cheaper stuff, that the punter can buy into and thus imagine they are buying into a ‘Pro’ experience. Pentax used to promote itself as ‘Pro’ in the 60’s, but have, in recent history, seemed to be more apologetic about their offering. I do see this changing with Ricoh. But more needs to be done.
If they pick this up I want a FEE
Very well expressed.
Regards, Horst
Agreed, and indeed the brand aspiration is exactly my long term argument for Pentax making a FF DSLR system with associated lenses even when I wasn't personally interested in FF.
Lenses: Pentax DA 10-17mm ED(IF) Fish Eye, Pentax DA 14mm f/2.8, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8, Pentax-A 28mm f/2.8, Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.2, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-FA 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7, Pentax DA* 50-135mm f/2.8, Sigma 135-400mm APO DG, and more ..
Flash: AF-540FGZ, Vivitar 283
At the moment the 4/3 market is in early days and it is possible to look at that as a way in. Once the mirror is removed the lens becomes smaller due to being closer to the sensor so to produce a pro camera with lighter lenses would be one way into the market and the difference in lens to sensor means adaptors could be made to take all makes of lens giving an option for any pro to move over bit at a time. This is the only way I would see how any camera manufacturer could break into the pro market.
Well worth a watch by the way.
Saxon
I like the following snappy dialogue from the movie...
Lady Clare Rendlesham - What on earth is that you’re using?
David Bailey: It’s a Pentax S3
LCR - Tourist Camera
DB - No…
LCR - An amateur camera
DB - Well that depends on who’s holding it, doesn’t it?
LCR - Are you seriously telling me you’re going to spend the rest of the morning shooting on that thing?
DB - Rest of the week if I can help it.
LCR - Oh no, Mr Bailey I’m not an idiot. What about the reduction in quality?
DB - There will be no reduction in quality, there will be a change in quality.
LCR - The negative area produced in a medium format quality is several times the size of what can be produced on that thing; our results are going to be grainy, blurry….
DB - Energetic!
LCR - hurried…
DB - fresh, young, real,
LCR - cheap,
DB - vibrant,
LCR - grubby,
DB - instant
LCR - messy,
DB - and…..Alive! Does anyone remember alive? That’s the one before dead.
And yes, I know, DB did also shoot medium format in the studio, but the point he was making was about using the camera that best caught the moment. In the street, that was 35mm.
There’s a good article about his attitude to cameras in Pentax User Archive.
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Maybe Ricoh and Pentax maybe missed a trick by not promoting the K5/K3 as a "Pro" camera? The camera-buying public, especially those upgrading, are very prone to hype, and Olympus make much better use of that fact than do Ricoh/Pentax.
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