“Amateur Photographer (AP) has delayed its review of the Pentax K7 digital SLR after learning that the final version will include a modified imaging sensor.”
There must be a reason for this last moment modification and every pre-production Pentax K7 review should be “voided” at that point. I cannot recall another company making such a drastic change in the last moment.
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I really hope the changes are small, else it would be a really bad move by Pentax. Will have to rewrite the review.
It is a good move for Pentax, you had no right to make a review until the final product was on the market.
IMO either this was planned and the pre-prod cameras used beta sensors to get some cameras out to testers or they’ve responded to some complaints (high iso? AF/iso/shutter speed change in movie mode?) and miracously come up with a quick solution.
Or its just a marketing trick to get people interested in the new K7.
No, I think Samsung pulled out a new sensor which is better than the old one and Pentax want’s to make K-7 even better, to be the best APS-C camera on the market.
Pentax realized they had been mounting the K7′s sensor on backwards!
yeah, from now on they’ll write “this side up” on all sensors
It ist the new back-illuminated CMOS from sony
If Pentax put a modified sensor in the K7, don’t they also have to alter drastically the firmware? Considering the importance of the latter, I wonder how Pentax could have their camera ready by July. Hopefully the K7 will perform better in the end but I am a bit worried about the first version.
“There must be a reason for this last moment modification”
Can you say CA?
I am quite frankly appalled by the high levels of CA on my Pentax K20D.
I am not saying that this *is* the reason that they are modifying the sensor but I sure hope it is. . . My K20D is reserved for telephoto APO lens use only as a result of the horrendous CA that shows up even at 30mm focal length (or higher) and gets progressively worse as the FL gets wider.