Originally posted by edri If there is a new mirrorless it must be with a shorter register distance. Otherwise it makes no sense. Since the main mirrorless advantage is the portability it would be wise to choose a smaller sensor 1inch or 4/3. A compact mirrorless with viewfinder, WR, sensor stabilization, other Pentax features, some WR zoom lenses, an adapter for K mount ... I want them.
I would like to buy these until next summer.
Pentax / Ricoh have you heard?
Smaller sensor, there already Q, m3/4 market is crowded with lot of very nice and competitives bodies... And the biggest issue of a new mount is the lack of lenses. Many of the new mounts have simply no echosystem around them. Only m4/3 and E mount really start to have something and even that no match for Canon, Nikon or Pentax traditionnal mount, by far.
The lenses can be small on K mount. See DA21, DA40, DA70 as pancakes. DA15, DA35 macro, FA28, FA35, FA43, FA50, FA77 all theses lenses are either tiny or small. In zooms we have DA18-50, DA20-40. It can be done, no issue. On the opposite, neither Sony or Fuji can manage a DA70 or FA77 at the same size because of registration distance.
A K01 was still a much smaller/lighter body than a K3 or K1. The problem of K01 was terrible AF, no EVF, objectionnable design. There no reason theses issues could not be fixed.