Originally posted by Imp The circular reasoning!!! In most cases, your customers are not primarily shooting video, because your cameras are not good at video!
While Pentax may be caught in a negative feedback loop, it is equally wrong to say that
in most cases, their customers would
primarily shoot video if the cameras were better at it. While I do shoot the occasional video, it's not my primary interest, nor are any of my cameras holding me back. Maybe stills shooters are a dying breed and I'm in the minority here (but based on past threads, I don't think I am).
Originally posted by Imp That's like saying, before the creation of the K-1, "most of our users don't shoot full frame..." - Duh, because you didn't have one!!
Not a good analogy. Poor video is not the same thing as no video. Before the K-1, Pentax cameras didn't have a "FF" setting that people chose not to use because it wasn't as good as Canon or Nikon or Sony. They DO have a video option now. It's not as good as others, but that may or may not be why most of their customers don't primarily shoot video.
For better or worse, Pentax is stuck with an image processor that is years behind Canon/Pana/Sony. They can't change processors without finding another vendor and starting from scratch, which would be prohibitively expensive. If video is your primary interest, you should get the right tool for your needs. Pentax will always be behind in video.