Originally posted by Mistral75 This is a mere off-the-shelf Chinese product with a Pentax label on it.
That's disappointing.
Unfortunately, it does not come with Chinese pricing...
Originally posted by Adam Doesn't seem competitive at all compared to the competition.
+1
Why didn't Ricoh put a "Ricoh" label on this one?
It would have made more sense to me to have anything "Pentax" weather-sealed or at least rugged and with an outdoors appeal and put a "Ricoh" label on left-field cameras with a high price. In that sense, the WG-* series should have kept the Pentax label and this XG-1 should have been a "Ricoh".
I hope at least the lens is very good (like the Olympus lens on the MX-1), otherwise the XG-1 may even do damage to the Pentax label.