Time for a PENTAX compact camera system forum!

[kyteflyer]

I see there's a Pentax Q forum. I would think it would be good to make it just a Pentax forum so that those with the K-01 can post in there, instead of in small DSLR which it clearly is not.

Please?

[Luke]

I guess it just needs a name change

[krugorg]

I like the idea, Sue, but I would worry that it would be a bit quiet. I think there are 2 of us on the forum with a K-01.

What about merging the Ricoh GXR and Q forum and make it a Pentax/Ricoh CSC forum? It sounds like we have some more systems coming down the line, good stuff, but these may always be smaller, niche products?

[Luke]

That's a sound idea Kyle....especially since they are now all under one umbrella.

[Armanius]

Speaking of the K-01, I was pixel peeping (again) at DPR, and the RAW files from the K-01 at 6400 actually look a little bit cleaner than the K-5 (but also slightly softer too). Notwithstanding the softness, the K-01 at 6400 might be the second best looking RAW files for APS-C cameras, after only the X100. DPR doesn't have studio samples for XP1 yet though.

[kyteflyer]

I like the idea, Sue, but I would worry that it would be a bit quiet. I think there are 2 of us on the forum with a K-01.

What about merging the Ricoh GXR and Q forum and make it a Pentax/Ricoh CSC forum? It sounds like we have some more systems coming down the line, good stuff, but these may always be smaller, niche products?

Possibly. Ultimately its up to Amin, but the K-01 isnt a DSLR and so deserves a spot of its own or shared with other Pentax mirrorless.

[Julien]

Speaking of the K-01, I was pixel peeping (again) at DPR, and the RAW files from the K-01 at 6400 actually look a little bit cleaner than the K-5 (but also slightly softer too). Notwithstanding the softness, the K-01 at 6400 might be the second best looking RAW files for APS-C cameras, after only the X100. DPR doesn't have studio samples for XP1 yet though.

I agree with everything you wrote: that the K-01 has very, very clean RAW files, that they look (a bit suspiciously) soft, that I would probably put them slightly after the X100 and slightly before the NEX-5N or K-5. Obviously there isn't much to seperate each of them.

[Herman]

Does K-01 support EVF? The Q does not.

[Luckypenguin]

Maybe some of the forums just need some renaming or refining. For instance, the Canon G1X doesn't fit any of the existing forums, but if a separate one was created just for it it won't have a lot of threads in it!

[Luke]

Nic, doesn't the G1x fit in the fixed lens small sensor forum under Canon. I know the sensor is bigger than most of the others in there, but I think it's way to group them together. It really is similar to the the other G series cameras, just bigger and better, right?