Originally posted by Raffwal So, what did the dude actually SAY? Lots of nice chatter with rather little content. Two concrete points which I noted were that DSLRs will still be made - as many have taken as a given - and that no FF mirrorless is in the pipeline. Anything else really?
Well on the K-01, basically he talked about Pentax making it a little bit larger than the competition on purpose, in order to take advantage of mirrorless benefits. What are those mirrorless benefits? He didn't say, but I'm guessing the XS lenses with the rear elements extended may provide a clue.
That doesn't explain the no EVF, but he didn't really address that.
That combined with him saying they will keep making cameras with lenses reveals some of their thoughts on the APS-C line. To them, I think the K-01 is sort of an experiment searching for its own niche, not something that is going to take the market by storm. Their bread and butter for the near future will still be the K-5 type of camera, IMO.
Also I was interested in him saying that they will now be focusing on all their camera lines at the same time. This suggests that before due to limited resources they had to switch from each project, which is probably why stuff took so long to come out.
Oh, and they consider the limited wide zoom as the successor to the DA*16-50. That is interesting to me.
In general, I thought it was cool to see him talk about what Pentax thinks about itself, such as promising to be unique and well made. It's not just an accident that they are weird, in other words, they do it on purpose and take pride in it
I'd have to watch it again, but those were some things that jumped out at me.