Originally posted by K-9 I say if you took a poll in these forums of who is going to buy a Q and then a poll of who is going to buy a FF body if it ever comes out, the FF buyers will outnumber the Q buyers. How can you say it's not true? You have absolutely no idea how many people will buy the Q or how many Pentax is going to sell.
Forum numbers have nothing to do with anything. If Pentax sold three cameras to every member of these fora, they would lose money. The question is what camera will sell to the populace at large.
Full frame is used by a small segment of upper end users. Between the strides that APS-C sensors have made and a lousy economy, full frame numbers have actually shrunk. At the same time, Nikon/Canon users tend to be locked in by their lenses and are unlikely to jump across to another brand, even if it offers nice features or, slightly lower cost.
At the same time, a Q camera selling for 600-ish dollars will sell a lot in Japan and depending on what image quality is like, elsewhere as well.