Forum, the K01 shows a progression. I am someone that shoots sports and rely on both Pentax and Tamron fast glass in hot, cold, rain, snow. So I can immediately tell that the K01 is not aimed at me. No way will I look through the 300/f4 from a lcd screen. Putting a camera to your face is the equivalent of putting the stock of a rifle in your shoulder. You would never fire a rifle accurately or repeatedly if it wasn't grounded in your shoulder. Same for us sports or action oriented photographers.
My hope is that the marketing folks at Pentax know what market they are going after here. It certainly cannot be easy to make a new niche with the overbearing coverage of Nikon and Canon. And when you only own single digit percentages of the market, you cannot make a big R&D mistake.
Back to my title, I am hopeful because we all know that the next thing Pentax is working on must be well underway.
We need weather sealed, 10-12 fps EFV and lets kick that sensor up to 25M. My hope is that the K01 allowed Pentax to prove out that they can get so much of the key abilities ironed out so that when they put that next real prosumer body on the market they have found a way to differentiate from Sony, Canon, Nikon. I am just hoping that the K01 is a teaser to something else big this year.