New Camera
We bought a new camera (largely for kid pictures), after many months of looking at lens MTF charts, reviews, sample images etc etc. I was getting a little fed up with it all, mostly because I could not seem to find anything that met our needs. I was leaning towards the big sensor compacts, but very few of them seem to produce decent images. Recently, though, our friend Mark recommended that I look at the Pentax SLRs, and I was very happy to see that the new K-5 has a lot going for it: relatively small body, not ultra-heavy, excellent dynamic range, excellent low light performance, and best of all, super sharp SMALL prime lenses that were designed specifically for an APS-C sensor. I was beginning to give up hope on APS-C sensors, because I was worried about range, but the sensor tests at DXO reveal that this sensor is one of the best that they have tested, and in their tests even outperforms (in dynamic range) some full frame sensors.
