Originally posted by 6BQ5 Abandoning the mount would throw away an entire installed base of customers. It would amount to a huge betrayal, loss of trust, result in bad publicity.
I agree. If Pentax were to abandon the K-mount, I would go with Nikon. Sure, my K-mount gear wouldn't magically stop working, but the existing K-mount bodies would conk out at some point and eventually all you would have to choose from is a dwindling supply of used bodies on their last legs.
I would reconsider, if an adapter was available that was 1) affordable, 2) physically small and inobtrusive, and 3) allowed all functions on existing lenses to work as they always had... the "a", the AF, the whole works, AND maintain crop/focal length integrity.
But yeah... I think abandoning the backwards-compatible K-mount would be a very, very bad idea. Not that I think they would be that stupid. But hey... I could be wrong.