Originally posted by zoolander But this is all wishful thinking considering the K-1 is coming out soon and Pentax has struggled to deliver lenses - of their own design - for the K-1. I think a K-02 is a pipe dream now, but I think I read somewhere that Ricoh is going to get into the mirrorless market ........... just as Samsung is trying to get out. Ricoh is dooooooooooomed ! Maybe Samsung could sell Ricoh its camera division.
What count is the lenses are there and are good., not who did their design. Many of the lenses sold under some brand are behind the scenes designed by Tamron, Tokina, Zeiss and alike. A brand is just a name to attrack fandboy... Tamron for example has big activity doing things for others... There many many more tamron lenses than the one under their own brand.
Pentax managed to introduce 24-70, 28-105, 150-450, 70-200, 15-30 for the their FF camera and has also quite many primes available (31, 35, 43, 2 50, 77, 100, 200, 300). This is more than what Sony has on FE mount after several years and Pentax has 5 more lenses on roadmap (4 primes, 1 fisheye zoom). They only miss a UWA basically to say they have a complete system and it will come soon. I don't call that strugling.