[Asahiflex]

Never mind.

Looks good in the video! These were on RiceLow:

Jesus man, that green camera is so good-looking...

The ladies are gonna love it

[Alizarine]

No official announcement on the K-S1 yet?

btw, it seems video mode is on the power switch. Nice touch there - specially when the green (stills) LED on it turns red when in video mode.

No official announcement on the K-S1 yet?

I guess there's been a leak somewhere.

[Kunzite]

He didn't say anything about WR, I think? Well, with The Gap, I wouldn't have expected it

The Gap appears to be just a groove, to fit the metal-looking (plastic) strip.

[VisualDarkness]

I guess there's been a leak somewhere.

My guess is that this is a tactical choice to build up some hype with mystery.

My guess is that this is a tactical choice to build up some hype with mystery.

Probably more than 50% of the leaks are deliberate, or tactical if you like. Leak nevertheless.

[thibs]

There are professionals out there who are using the X-T1 and maybe even some using the A7.

A pro using a camera and a pro camera doesn't mean the same thing.
Some Pros use iphones. It means nothing. A pro camera is, btw, mostly used by amateurs full of money

---------- Post added 27-08-14 at 09:22 ----------

Logic then says there won't be a FF camera mirrorless camera. Since Pentax has repeatedly said 1) they are developing a FF camera, 2) there is room for a third full-line camera company and it will be Pentax, 3) they are committed to the three existing mounts, then logically they are developing a FF K-mount dSLR. A 4th mount with a FF adapter seems unlikely.

None of which has anything to do with the K-S1.

You forgot the part where they stated that, in their view, APS was the max size for a mirrorless camera (couple years ago, so to be placed in the context).

---------- Post added 27-08-14 at 09:30 ----------

In addition, most of the KAF pins are there to communicate the smallest and largest apertures of the lens (NOT the current aperture setting, mind you- just the largest and smallest it is capable of). A mechanical linkage opens and closes the aperture, based on how far the camera thinks it should move the arm. That's a 1980s way of doing things - most new mounts communicate digitally between the camera and lens, and the lens does the work. So do you force the new A mount to still use an 'old' linkage method, or do you put the servo motor and mechanical bits in the adapter? Do you keep the screwdrive motor in the camera body, or put that in the adapter, too? (Sony did just that for the non-motored-lens-Alpha-to-E-mount adapter.)

You actually described KA mount. Later revisions have the digital pin which solves that (KAF).
This does not contradict what you wrote but I doubt most of the other contacts are necessary for KAF compatibility. KA for sure though.

[VisualDarkness]

Probably more than 50% of the leaks are deliberate, or tactical if you like. Leak nevertheless.

Well, we say the same things then, just a matter of semantics.

[ZombieArmy]

So it's basically a k-01 with a viewfinder?

[mecrox]

Logic then says there won't be a FF camera mirrorless camera. Since Pentax has repeatedly said 1) they are developing a FF camera, 2) there is room for a third full-line camera company and it will be Pentax, 3) they are committed to the three existing mounts, then logically they are developing a FF K-mount dSLR. A 4th mount with a FF adapter seems unlikely.

None of which has anything to do with the K-S1.

Not sure I get the part about "there is room for a third full-line camera company". If it means "we cover it all from compacts to FF or even more", there are three already if you count Sony which it would be very hard not to. Before long, there may be Fuji as well and perhaps Samsung too. A new product here, a new product there - pretty soon it adds up to a lot of "full-line" camera companies. It might be that eventually all surviving camera companies will be "full line" anyway. One could argue that the old ways are breaking down, as in beginner -> pro, small -> large and so forth. The landscape is flattening: nearly all cameras are reaching such a high quality bar that the differentiator is more what you use them for, tools for the job so to speak. Take the K-S1: in old-fashioned terms it is for beginners or "entry level". In fact, the K-S1 has enough resolution, RAW development potential and access to sufficient lenses to mean that in the right hands it could put an image on the front of a publication or mega-website anywhere in the world. No one talks about entry level or "beginners" with smartphones or tablets. They are just what they are and differ one from another through increasingly pointless features. Only ideas, I hasten to add.

[RonHendriks1966]

Looks great. Official announcements are so old school....

[spotreunion]

First I did not like the look of this new K-S1 but the more I look at this the more I like it.
Looks really compact too.

I'm pretty sure it could help in getting more visibility to Pentax as not everybody has a need of a K3 and we need different cameras that cover different needs.

[RonHendriks1966]

So we can call it the KISS one

[Rondec]

Well, it looks to me that like Fuji's new release, this camera will have a "full size" sensor.