Originally posted by jatrax
Yeah, FF camera coming and two new FF, professional level lenses shown. More on the lens road map. Innovative cameras (whether we like them or not) released. Just slipping away.....
It is a very good news, but what if I don't have 2.500$ to pay for a professional lens?
I would love in my bag a D FA 24-70mm f2.8 and a D FA 70-200m f2.8, but as an amateur photographer to spend 4-5.000$ on 2 lenses it's not an option. I'm not sure that even 10% of the people from this forum are shooting professionaly with their Pentax cameras, in order tu justify buying top lenses. The inexistent marketing from Ricoh it is one of many reason why third party manufacturers are not interested in Pentax.
Look at the new lenses from Tamron and Sigma (24-70mm, 70-200mm, and those telephoto lenses), they are quite good and you don't have to sell an arm to buy them.
I also have a Godox AD180 flash (it is known also under the name Genesis Reporter 180, or Cheetah AD180) which is very good, but there is no trigger from Godox (or other manufacturer) to work in HSS mode. But there are many triggers which work in HSS mode for Canon and Nikon.

And this is sad.
Without support from third party manufacturers Pentax will never compete with Canon/Nikon and Sony, even if the new full is frame around the corner.
For those reasons I said that if I will leave Pentax, it will be because I don't have less expensive alternatives (lenses and triggers) from third party manufacturers.