Originally posted by The Squirrel Mafia After seeing the "leaked" K-1II specifications, I now wonder how much effort they will put on the K-3II replacement. I guess only time will tell.
There are some exciting cameras coming out soon & if Ricoh wants Pentax to be relevant, they really need to make that K-3II replacement very desirable.
I'm on the edge of my chair right now. Hahaha!
If Pentax was just planning on releasing a K3 II replacement with current K3 II specs and an accelerator chip it could be done now. It's clear they are working on something more. I still wouldn't get my hopes up too much. Part of the problem is that we whip up expectations too high in the time leading up to a camera's release, imagining the features that Pentax can/should place in the coming camera and then end up being disappointed because the camera is too big (or too small), doesn't have the right video codecs (or has video at all), or whatever else comes to mind.
My guess would be an incremental improvement frame rate and auto focus, but that the biggest thing will be that Pentax will have a new imaging processor. Not sure what is out there, but it feels like for this camera and probably for next generation cameras in general they will need something a bit more modern.
I do wonder how much they'll do with video. It feels like cameras at this level will need to have 4K video going forward and so that will need to be something they figure out.
Ricoh isn't dumb and they understand that they need specifications that are adequate to sell a camera versus other cameras available at a given price point.