Originally posted by RioRico You flog a dead horse. Ricoh has announced new mountors but no new lensors. If/when GXR sales can sustain new lensors, more might emerge, but that's likely not Ricoh's path now.
Then where's the revenue stream? A cheap body and someone else's mount and some glass from a manufacturer long dead??
That's a tiny market based on a few hobbyists with LBA who have less expensive and more functional NEX and M43 systems to choose from with inexpensive adapters.
Think of it:
Let's say there is a new Pentax APS-C mirrorless mount coming that has a K-mount adapter.
Yay!
Let's assume there are inexpensive adapters for a variety of legacy glass jus like NEX and M43.
Awesome.
But there is also the GXR which will have the same functionality at a far higher price based on a modular system that has caught no fire with the market?
That's cannibalization. One cannot be in the same zoo.
Pentax has 2 DSLR products in the active pipe at any one time. That's it. Now they have the Q at something of a premium price point. There's going to be 2 more systems in play as well?
Makes no biz sense. None at all.