Originally posted by Nicolas06 Excuse me but that's pure marketing propaganda.
The KP has the same dimensions as K3/K3-Ii the previous flagship.
It is a bit lighter true but basically like a K5, previous generation flagship.
It's smaller than K-3/K-5:
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And how is this a 'marketing propaganda', if this camera is smaller than it's direct competitors?
Originally posted by Nicolas06 It is heavier/bigger than the previous non flagship cameras of the past years: KS1, KS2, K70, K50...
They can't get arround the K-mount + mirror box, that's a given. But the camera could be significantly smaller/lighter if they wanted; At least like a KS1, likely smaller.
I said that KP is a compact DSLR, not that it's a smallest K-mount camera yet. Neither of cameras that you've listed feature separate aperture motor and magnesium alloy body, which contribute to body size and some of them don't have tiltable screen. There is no way that they could've put all features of KP into smaller body.
Originally posted by Nicolas06 While I think that Pentax keep it DSLR reasonably sized, they tend to make them heavy and don't make them by any means small and the KP is just getting a marketing label of what was standard for the 10 past camera released by Pentax.
How any of this is contradicting the fact, that KP is a compact DSLR? It's still smaller than comparable Canikon offerings.
Originally posted by Nicolas06 As for KP being a sign of new small lenses for the FF or even APSC, I fail to see it. For all we know they could decide to not release a new DAltd for the next 5 years and introduce only big/heavy FF lenses keeping FAltds, FA35 and FA50 as the small light FF primes again for the next 5 years. That would look perfectly reasonable, in particular if kenspo is right that the priority of most people will to pay for them prefer huge/heavy perfect lenses overs diminutive FA ltds.
Last released APS-C lens by Pentax was 55-300, which is smaller than previous 55-300, before that Ricoh released 18-50 that also is smaller than previous version of that lens. Last APS-C camera releases were K-70 and KP, which are both one of the smallest DSLRs available on the market today, especially comparing to Canikon offerings. We don't know whether Ricoh will release new Ltd anytime soon, but I'm sure that there will be new compact lenses.