Originally posted by kooks KP is a nice camera.. but as we all know is not the K3ii replacement, and IMO the price was way to high for a camera that is not an APS-C "top of the line" like K3 were/is.. so maybe sales werent that good, not because of quality but because of price.. the new $950 price sounds much better than the original $1199.... but who knows..
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For sure Pentax would not discountinue it but sellers may if they don't manage sales. After all Pentax experienced that less and less sellers are selling their product. The KP is nice but basically a K3 with bit better high iso, bit smaller/lighter body but also quite few missing features too.
For me Pentax shall have made the KP to replace the K70 with same price, be a bit more plastic so it could get K50 weight rather than K5 weight and have some decent APSC flagship asking for $1000-1200. Like everything of KP/K3-II + a new AF sensor covering most of the viewfinder and improved action performance. Both would have sold well.
The other solution would have been to keep the KP price and features set but put a basic FF sensor on it and release it together with a new set of DFA entry level lenses like a DFA35 f/2.4, DFA50 f/1.8 a collapsible 24-70kit lens... This would also have sold like hot cakes too.
But the KP as it is while not a bad camera by any mean, all the contrary, has no market with its mix of features and its price point.
For example, explain me why I should get one as a K3 owner... K3 that has been out for what? 3.5 years. And the same for K3-II. Even for K70 owner, there only really AF as differenciator and people that cared of that brought a K3 then, not a K70. Owner of previous flagships likely want another flagship, and people wanting to replace their K30/K50 would find it too expensive.