Originally posted by brofessor What are the chances of Pentax announcing an enthusiast level mirrorless this year? …
From reading many of Pentax interview, I guess, It is very slim to non. Pentax reps seem to believe the company is serving what their users want. (I guess, they are only listen to “some“ group of user they want to listen and the groups that left the brand are not the group they want to listen.) They were doing / saying almost the same when people asked for FF DSLR years before the release of K1. As for mirrorless trend right now, they has been saying it time and time again, they don’t want to follow the (market) trend. I am not sure who make this decision. (Pentax or Ricoh?) To me, I am more interesting in the survival of the brand. So I think, relying on existing but also srinking existing users alone is not the way to survive today’s market. I think the brand should try to get more new user. Because the more new people buying their product = the more they make money = the more they can to throw $$$ at R&D = the more the brand grow and so no. And because of that, sometime they have to follow market trend. If follow market trend was a wrong way to go, we won’t see Sony and Fuji at where they are now. The same go to Canon / Nikon and everyone in Japan back when they followed the Asahi Optical’s lead on a SLR body design with an instant-return mirror. Imagin if Canon said; we don’t follow Asahi Optic lead and the market trend back then!
But what do I really know?
Pentax might want to do a mirrorless body now (so they can get the same start as the other bigger guy in the market) but Ricoh won’t let them do. or... etc. I really don’t know.
Originally posted by brofessor Something that can compete with the likes of Sony A6xxx or Fuji XT series. Something that can rival a K70 in IQ. I would buy something like that. Wouldn’t you?
I would be more interesting in FF mirrorless because I can see KP is really a good, comfortably small and light weight body for APSC. if they did FF mirrorless and upgrade FA limited to DFA limited (keep the same side and weight) they could make the old fan really happy and a lot more new user who wants a real light weight mirrorless without having to use the over size lenses like what Sony is offering might come here too.
But again, what do I know? I know nothing. I am sure they have a lot of technical difficalty. well.. I don’t expect any thing new coming at CP+ this year either.