Pete,

Don't worry. I find that whenever you talk sense, we are in full agreement.

Experts don't worry about the K10D's JPEGs because they have the nous to either shoot RAW, or to adjust the default settings, or to sharpen later.

G

Chris, you are now doing what you accuse me of doing - seizing on a "questionable assertion" and making "a tiringly snide remark".

And whilst there was everything wrong with Pete's assumption, there was nothing wrong with mine. Posters on DPReview are a very, very small subset of Pentax users, with arguably a rather different take on things from that of most users. Certainly, their obsessions are not mirrored by that other small set of Pentax users that hangs out here.

Note that I didn't say that a majority ISN'T concerned, I was just pointing out that Pete can't draw that conclusion from DPReview.

And this "issue" has been debated a dozen times and more. It doesn't need debating again. The points you say that Pete raised have all been raised before, and addressed before.

Except one. Pete's claim that he hopes to reassure potential buyers is, sadly, rather ruined by the fact that he titled his message: "K10D sharpness still raging (will it ever be put to bed)". People remember headlines, not the article itself. It would have been better, given his intentions, if he had said something like: "Experts agree that K10D is very sharp!"

And finally, my remark was directed at DPReview posters, and the great noise they like to make about trivial matters. If you had been here longer, you would know that I have a rather low opinion of DPReview and the people who hang out there.

G

How do you know a majority of Pentax owners are complaining?

There are several hundred thousand Pentax DSLRs out there. The "soft-focus" whingers on DPReview number perhaps twenty.

I wouldn't call that a majority.

Just remember that empty vessels make the most sound.

G

It won't be put to bed if people keep dragging the subject up again.

G

Not too difficult, I feel:

JC: We don’t know timing, we don’t know pricing, we don’t know any other information.

IR: When will you know?

JC: That’s a good question. Hm… I don’t know.

G

They are robust, capable, picture-taking machines, which work well in natural light. Much better made than any later camera before the K10D (and perhaps the MZ-S).

G

Peter,

Newton's third law stated that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. My posts are a response to the negativity that has been prevalent from some quarters recently. As such, they are perhaps a bit negative themselves.

However, Peter Elgar has now started posting some (quite good) pictures, which is great, and I'm just waiting for Viewfinder to do the same.

And for somebody else to stop re-posting pictures he's posted already!

G

Peter,

It's clearly escaped your attention, but we've all (well, almost all) taken the plunge, and bought digital cameras.

We've all bought card readers; we've all struggled with the manual; we've all actually taken some pictures.

And guess what? We're all still alive.

Now go and take some pictures yourself, and report back when you have something interesting to say, or some good pictures to post.

Blow-by-blow accounts of taking the bus to Chelmsford or plugging in a card-reader aren't, per se, terribly interesting.

G

I had to read it twice. I've been called many things, but I've never been compared to a bridge. You, on the other hand....

G

On the contrary, you CAN blame it on that!

Sometimes operator error leads to a bad exposure, and sometimes the dynamic range is just too wide. RAW helps, either way.

G