UPDATE: Lol! Yesterday websites like Pentaxforums posted a rumor about a possible Pentax 24MP Full Frame. This was a fake rumor!!!! Milan Svitek explains how the rumor is fake in youtube. LOL!
UPDATE_2: Apperently a Pentax FF is due for 2014 only. The news is interetsing because Pentax usually uses Sony sensors for their DSLR…
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FAKE
According to a very a reliable poster on one of the DPR forum, it’s APSC 24 MP camera.
The google plus poster is a troll
That poster on DPR has a history of leaking very accurate info
He leaked K30 months before release.
He leaked K5II and K5IIs months before photokina with 16 MP sensor (no one was expecting 16 MP at that time)
Here is what he said
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/41799905
(also see his posting history … he has never been wrong).
There are two cameras one higher than K-5II with 24 MP APSC and one lower than K30 model with 16 MP sensor.
No FF
There are two cameras. The K3 which is fullframe and the K3s which is APS-C.
Very definitive statement… and very wrong 🙂
Indeed. Anyone who’s been paying attention would realize that if there’s an “s” version too, it’s the same minus AA filter.
I hope so. Maybe then Sony will bring the pro alpha to the production, instead of sitting in prototype limbo.
Lets just hope its not another brick-camera. If they dont make it the smallest FF Dslr ever, it will be an epic fail, because thats the only FF DSLR niche thats not already taken by the big guys.
Is this an early April Fool’s joke? There’s no image…
if its true, this is a good thing for everybody. More competition -> more competitive prices for everyone.
Read the post: “As I already stated, this camera sits between its competitors with the D800 and the D4” – it won’t change any prices what so ever.
*If* this is true, it’ll only be Pentax users buying it. The Sony A99 did nothing to CaNikon prices either as it is mostly sold to existing Sony users anyway.
In fact, CaNikon brought out their cheap FF bodies and caught Sony with its pants down as usual.
Was that before or after Sony had a FF DSLR for $2k? Yeah they really beat Sony to the punch, 3 years later – Seeing a lot of that in Canon lately, crap versions of Sony products 3 years down the track…
But yeah you’re right, Sony would be going great guns if only they listened to you Frank.
A FF that didn’t even prick at CaNikon’s market share. That’s the point if you’d get over yourself.
I was referring to the entry of another company to the FF market. For obvious reasons its rather hard to make any meaningful statement about the impact of single a product that we don’t even know the real specs of, let alone its real life performance.
It’s a drop in the CaNikon ocean. 😉
It’s a fake. This guy is just spotty youth. The APS-C camera for $2000 sounds like an EPIC fail BTW, no matter how many megapixels it has. Good buy pentax, you can do pleasure to use cameras (except Random Auto Focus feature), but these last products are just ridiculous.
This is real…because I can’t see the image and the post…:)
interesting ((c) Niko Bellic)
The topic has been removed from G+. I wonder…
Who will even notice. Its just another 24mp full frame in an already oversaturated market.
Pentax don’t have that many full frame lenses, unless they will rely on legacy lenses I don’t see the point
They have zero modern FF zooms. That’s a problem indeed (especially since you can’t adapt many lenses to fit the mount).
Asahi Pentax is (or at least was) an optical company, just like Nikon and Olympus etc., the point of ANY camera is to sell lenses. The lack of legacy glass is a plus when it comes to selling a new line of lenses for a full frame DSLR. Not that there really is a lack of full frame Pentax AF lenses. . .
It is a problem in terms of marketing, if you have to develop a whole line of modern lenses (where are those moderns FF zooms?)
It was held against The A900 after release too, while it had a whole bunch of FF Minolta lenses *and* a couple of new FF lenses (including Zeiss zooms) available too.
I seriously doubt Pentax in its current state can produce a full line (or even a bare range) of FF lenses for just one system, the cost would be too great.
To begin with… Isn’t the Pentax 77mm lens an APS only lens?
I think you are referring to the Pentax 70mm f2.4. The 77mm f1.8 is an FA lens used on old Pentax film bodies. 🙂
And while the newer Pentax DA 70mm f2.4 is a supposedly DX lens its actually a proper FX lens and has been tested to work well with FF bodies – http://vjacesslav.blogspot.in/2012/03/smc-pentax-da-70mm-f24-limited-vs-full.html
The Pentax blogger Rice High has been collecting the Pentax AF lenses that cover FF for some time- as have many Pentaxians. These are mostly the prime ‘Limited’ series of fine lenses. Pentax has been working on a FF camera at least since 2008. Anyone who is shocked by this news has not been keeping up on camera developments outside of narrow SonyLand. Pentax officials confirmed that they will are working on a FF cam during CES.
Just so no-one here can say they didn’t see it coming, Samsung will be releasing a FF camera as well. I doubt it will have IS like the Pentax is likely to have, though:
http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/lets-drop-the-bomb-new-samsung-full-frame-nx-r-to-come-in-march/
And I’m sure it will be rumored for quite some more time, because it won’t see consumer hands anytime soon. But collecting is always fun. 😉
FX, DX lenses ??
Why use brand specific names not relevant for other brands of lenses ? To mislead ? To cause confusion ?
Whats wrong with the proper assigned names of lens formats, f.ex. aps-C, aps-H, 35mm full format or so ?
Pentax releases a Full Frame body is the day I change brands. Until then I shall stick with Sony.
But you just gotta know that the Pentax FF (if such a thing ever exists) will have one of the smallest, best handling and best quality bodies getting the absolute best out of the best sensor on the market and with IBIS to boot. It won’t be super fast, but it would be pretty stunning.
I expect that you are right MdB, assuming that the full frame Pentax DSLR follows in the tradition of excellence established by the Pentax K5 series APS-C DSLRs.
Enjoy the vast range of FF lenses…
If you wsnt to see a limited/expensive range of lenses, wait for the native FF NEX lenses to come out. Get ready for sticker shock.
With a slight problem that vast majority of current Pentax lenses are APSC. And most “limited” APSC/FF lenses even there are way over priced.
Nikon is far more versatile/better choice if you want to switch to a different brand with FF body.
Thanks for the advice, but I think Pentax have a few FF lenses kicking around, it isn’t like FF is something new 😉
Besides you have no idea what my needs are, you just assume Nikon = More = Better. Fuck Nikon.
Well, this seems like a fake! Anyway why would we long for a Pentax FF with an A-mount? We already have the excellent Sony A99( DPR Gold )! Sometimes I don’t understand the OP…Is this a rumor site for Sony or what?
What part of “Full Frame DSLR with 24 MPX ***Sony*** sensor…from Pentax?” did you fail to understand Lucas. 😉
Unfortunately Mr Svitek is nothing but a mythomaniac and proven so, for example on Pentax Forums.
Since he was driven to the wall by his contradictors and had no way out, he deleted the whole thing.
Svitek has confirmed that it’s fake, meant as an inside joke, but it got out of hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXPo72dpAtQ
Nothing more to see here folks!
Or is it true and he’s just trying to throw us off the scent?! 😉
One rumor a year ago put the camera without lens at $2800. Now that would put it in line with the a99. Of course this is a rumor and Pentax has had to time to see that many bloggers think that that price point is too steep.
So Godot didn’t come after all?
I think Pentax have more to gain from starting afresh with a mirrorless system designed to be compatible with full frame from the beginning, rather than keep throwing money at K mount, anyway.
Well done to Andrea for being a good source of info all these while; verifying rumors and what not. Kudos.