I'm a Pentax user too, (K-Mount 4 Life!) and I love my K20D, but it's no panacea and can't really compare to the 5D. The full frame sensor alone is enough to make all the difference in the world to anyone who wants to shoot wide.

I want a 14mm (35mm Equivalent) rectilinear lens. For the full frame Canon, there's the 14mm F/2.8L, or the Sigma 14mm, Or the Tamron SP 14mm F/2.8. In for the APS-C format K20 there's... nothing. Well, okay, I guess you could do the Sigma 10-20mm, but that's a Zoom. I want PRIMES. :-)

That said, all you Canon users really get the shaft too. How is it I have wireless TTL flash control with my $800 Pentax body, and y'all get a big fat nothing at 3X the price? I mean, I get some of the reasons why they didn't include a pop-up, but would it have killed them to fix mold one into the body like they do with their compacts? Canon owners tend to be pretty loyal, you'd think at the price of the 5D they'd throw y'all a bone. Pretty disrespectful to such a huge and loyal userbase if you ask me.

@Ken

I find your comment even more amusing, since Dell's sister brand, Alienware, sells rebadged, reworked Clevo machines.


IIRC, at one point, Clevo was also the ODM for the XPS series of "Notebooks".

Can we use these to make Pandora's Battery to do the unbrick?

That's great for you. In the mean time, the rest of us with k-mount lenses will go back to the important business of taking pretty pictures (14MP... Maybe it really is time to replace my *istD.) rather than engaging in masturbatory hardware fanboyism. :-)

Man to man. Fist to fist. Blood and Bone. A true contest of body and wills.

That being the case, I'd least like to face the warthog. Being made of the finest in metals and composites, I suspect it has the advantage in body. And as an unfeeling, unthinking machine, its will is unshakable, unstoppable, unbreakable.

Then again, the warthog has no hands right? :-)

When you're shooting stuff like movies, all the bells and whistles in the world means nothing if you miss the shot due to bad lighting, or bad composition.

I use a sony VX2100 (old by now, easily had for under $1000, but with plenty of features) but more importantly, I have a set of LIGHTS and a good wireless mic.

My suggestion? Spend no more than $700 on the camera, and spend the rest on a decent mic, and at least a few reflectors if not some real lights.

Nick,

You have to understand that the hospital environment has many constraints that make it a both unique, and difficult challenge for equipment makers.

Little things like flaky RF shielding or overpowered transmitters can make life hell for the doctors and nurses working in telemetry wards.

Care must be taken in case design to allow for quick and easy cleaning to avoid spreading of diseases via equipment. It's not like you can take your tablet pc and toss it in an autoclave!

There's also a question of form factor. Doctors work amazingly long shifts. I know i dislike carrying my current toshiba R15 for more than 30 minutes or so in tablet form. At 6 lbs, it's a bit chunky. No way I'd carry it through a 16 hour shift.

There are of course the advantages that a computerized order system brings. If implemented properly, it can offer up to date realtime tracking of patient charts, digital orders (which hopefully will cut down drastically on medical mistakes!), asset and personell tracking, and maybe even some niceties like drug interaction information, or various other physician references.

And that's before we've even covered the various things that only a tablet does even better than a standard laptop, like annontation, or image manipulation. This sort of thing could be a godsend when looking over x-ray imagery, or to zoom into cardiographs. How about some quick and dirty VISUAL dosage calculation, so the doctors don't have to struggle with math AND prescription at the same time?