Originally posted by zapp Did anyone notice that the whole www does not care about Pentax. Pentaxrumors is a dead web resource, because there is no news, so nobody cares. Sigma does not offer all their third party lenses in PK mount, or with HSM motor. Zeiss stopped ZK lens line. Ricoh/Pentax stopped presenting anything interesting or something that could define a future for the K-series camera line.
It is on Pentax to show their followers where the company is headed. If APS-C is the answer fine, if FF is the answer even better, if it is something without a mirror OK, drop the K-mount whatever - any kind of guidance would help. Last photokina was a desaster considering new products, photokina 2012 was a desaster as well. Still no news, nothing worth a rumor... what are we doing here??? Are you guys still reading this post?
I walked into a camera store and saw the Pentax 645Z, thats the first time I've ever seen this medium format camera on a store shelf. I was about to say "May I", to give it a go, I probably should have. It looks like that store is real confident in the 645Z, and sales are probably coming - the 645Z appears to be well received.
Hopefully there will be a 35mm DSLR this year, as Ricoh have claimed.
So I don't know where people get this amnesia over Pentax: "Oh my gosh, Pentax is so stupid, they have no direction, they have no products, the products they release are no good, they're no good, everything is bad yadda yadda yadda".
I guess Pentax must be doing something right, considering how nobodies on Pentax rumors complaining about oil splatter, or faulty sensors with banding and other faults.