Originally posted by mee Is the chasm between Nikon sales (smallest of the big 2 DSLR manufacturers) and Ricoh/Pentax sales still so enormous that we should not see a turn around of 3rd party lens manufacturers slow departure from K mount this year and likely next?
Yes, I would have thought so, Mee.
It's a duopoly, and who wants to write a game for Nintendo when there's the Playstation and Xbox?
If it's any comfort, there's no enthusiasm for Sony, Fuji, Olympus or Panasonic either.
Sigma executives can always say that despite the calls of a vocal minority on this forum, why would Pentaxians buy the 50mm Art when they didn't buy the 35, and why would they fork out for the 50-100 f1.8 when we didn't go for the 18-35?
In a declining market, companies bunker down and become risk averse.