Originally Posted by SCGushue
The past year, and at least another 6 mos. to a year, of largely unfulfilled promises makes one wonder why we need to wait for a 14+MP camera and fast ultralong lenses when Nikon's 12.3 and lenses are already there.
Cameras: Sony gives priority to Nikon, since Nikon is a much bigger customer than Pentax. Remember the *ist D? It was delayed several months because Sony couldn't deliver the sensor, the success of Nikon's DSLR's meant that Sony did not have any capacity left for Pentax. Now Sony has released their own DSLR's using Sony sensors, which means that both Sony and Nikon gets new sensors from Sony before Pentax.
There has been other sensors in the working for some years now, and hopefully Pentax now can use them instead of Sony.
Long telephotos: Pentax official strategy is to care for the consumer market first, and then moving upwards. Long telephotos was to be released this year, but due to problems with parts supplier and manufacturing, this has not been possible. It is said that Pentax are getting tired of flying to Vietnam to sort the production problems out. Pentax has indeed problems with their lens plants there, and are working on a solution. Because of those production problems, they simply can't manufacture the long lenses right now.