Originally posted by monochrome
Q is important to Pentax. It is a market niche. You and Aristophanes and a few others can scoff at the 1/2.3 sensor - and perhaps rightly - but they sell some and plan to sell more. I see nothing wrong with that if they can make it happen, so long as they also continue to support and develop the K-mount and 645, as Jim emphatically stated they do, and would continue so to do.
Misquoting him (actually, misquoting me), then calling him a butthead adds nothing positive to the discussion
Let it be...
But.....The prime Q 8.5/1.9 is suddenly disappeared
The main prime lens for Q system is gone and there is no replacement. This prime makes the camera very compact.
Explain me, please.
Who is the ruler of Pentax marketing?
How can it be? To remove without replacement.
The samples of suddenly stopped interesting lines of Pentax products are a lot of...
We see now - DA limited primes line is stopped. DA* primes and zooms line is stopped. The flashes system is the worst at the market.
K-01 line is stopped. GXR line is stopped (?). XS lenses line is stopped.
Low-end DSLR is stopped. Top-crop - where is it? No any comments from Ricoh Pentax.
But a lot of demagogy about Q and new "never be" products.
Ricoh Pentax - it seems to me - thinks about non-Japanese market very rare...
What can we buy in the niche from USD500 till USD3000? I mean - DSLR.
K-30 and K-5II. It's all. Is it the choice?
Last edited by ogl; 05-24-2013 at 09:30 PM.