10.000,000 slrs sold from the heydays when Pentax was #1 in the 1960's thru 1981 is a milestone.
Just an additional 10,000,000 slr & dslrs sold since 1981, some 32 years later is eye opening.
My first AF SLR I bought new was Pentax way back in 2002, just a year after Pentax full frame Dslr was officially announced in February 2001 & times were very good. Then the years blew by & nothing...
I guess most Pentaxians have gotten tired of waiting & bought into Canikon full frame dslrs instead.
Originally posted by northcoastgreg I suspect there was a significant downtrend in Pentax bodies when the AF SLR era began, and also at the beginning of the digital era. I would expect in recent years there has been an upward trend thanks to the high turnover rate of digital bodies. However, I suspect that trend will go down over time. The boom phase in SLR (and cameras in general) sales is definitely coming to end. The push toward increasing levels of resolution will turn SLRs (and most ILCs) into high-end products which wil be used mostly by professionals and "art" photographers. Most everyone else will be using compacts, cell phone, google glasses, or whatever other products high-end tech will produce for the low end market.