Originally posted by zoolander Why should we have to turn to one of the other mirrorless makers ?
Because they already make what you want, without having to develop a whole new product line that would probably be a colossal failure?
Originally posted by zoolander Now that Ricoh is listening to Pentaxians, we should hash this out, and talk about the things we would like in a Pentax K-02.
1. Compact.
2. New mount with a few lenses - (Wide angle, 16-50, 50-200) or (Limited's for mirrorless 15, 21, 35, 50,70).
3. K mount adapter, with built in motor for screw drive lenses, and super silent.
4.Decent AF.
5. Decent video.
6. An electronic viewfinder. Built in, or a decent accessory.
7. A tilty pop up flash.
8. and Marc Newson stays the heck away from the design.
I've already gone Fujifilm. I would prefer a Pentax mirrorless so's I can use my K-mount lenses.
C'mon Pentax K-02 us !
That... would not be a "K-02". It would have more in common with the Q than the K-01.
While PDAF-on-sensor has come a long ways in the past three years, Pentax doesn't have experience with it, so it would be expensive in R&D. Video... their video capabilities seems to strongly tied to what Fujitsu puts in the Milbeaut processor, so they'd have to acquire and learn a whole new family of processors. More R&D $$$. Ricoh actually has experience with removable EVFs, so we'll let that slide. Anyhow, the whole project would be a lot more expensive than the FF, with less initial return - at least D FA lenses can be sold to the existing customer base.
Investing a lot of money to launch a fourth ecosystem and go head-to-head in a market that is fairly saturated with large, well-established competitors with greater economies of scale is just... suicidal. They'd be crazy to do it, and they're not going to do it.
It sounds like what you need is just a better adapter. Fotodiox or Novoflex or Metabones are who you should be harassing, although if there was money to be made in autofocus K-mount adapters, I would expect someone to have done it by now.