Originally posted by Imp It might appease people a bit if Ricoh either a) can do free/small charge hardware fixes to the camera or b) offer discount to trade in cameras for newer ones... If this is going to become a bigger deal in the future.
We don't know yet that. For now with a single lens with an exact equivalent still available if you don't do video, there really no point to do anything about it. And if you want the advanced video features you need the K70, at this is the only camera with PDAF on the sensor. You may wait for the next flagship for more high end specs, through.
We can discuss the issue when other lenses are released. Will it be all lenses or only a few select video lenses at first ?
Also well if you plan to invest on theses new lenses and have a K3, yeah, you may have to updgrade.
Selling the old K3 to get the compatible K3-II so you can use theses new lenses should be a 300-400$ operation at worst today, and in 2 years should be a 100$ operation between 2 used models.
If you have a K5 or K5-II, I can't see how you could complain.