Originally posted by Lance B Let me ask you this. You are a new to DSLR purchaser and you have about $1,500 to spend on a camera and you have the choice of purchasing a high end APS C camera or a FF camera of the same size and specs.
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At the moment, advanced amateurs seem to be looking at the $1,500 price point for their cameras. Yes, when FF sensors come down in price this will also mean that APS C sensors will also come down in price but, advanced amatuers will still have a $1,500 budget and will want to get the most camera for their money and this will be a FF camera. As I say, why get an APS C camera if you can get a FF camera for the same price.
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It will happen, it is just a matter of when that price point is reached and once it is reached Pentax needs to be on the boat or they will be left standing at the dock.
Lol, better to be standing at the dock than join the voyage of the Marie Celeste. At the moment, there'll be no one on this boat because there aren't enough of these "advanced amateurs" to go round. $1500 is a great deal of money; not many have that to spend, let alone on a camera.
I'll go back to my original point. It's being suggested that Pentax should be in at least three and possibly four formats: medium format, full-frame DSLR, APS-C DSLR and, maybe, micro 4/3s EVIL.
Given Pentax's size and resources, I'd guess that's at least one and perhaps two segments too many. So which ones give?
None of this precludes Pentax moving to full-frame or a similar system eventually, because everything changes. But I'd guess that is much further off than many here think. Furthermore, at the moment Pentax has an APS-C lens range with some pretty big holes in it. The suggestion is that they continue with these holes while developing a full-frame system whose range of lenses will have even more holes in it. If quality zooms are your thing, Pentax even today isn't a very attractive system to buy into. So that makes two formats which these "advanced amateurs" may decide to pass on since the selection of lenses and accessories for either won't be up to snuff.
I'd say get walking right before you run but, hey, this is all clouds in the sky.