Originally posted by Kunzite Nonsense. If it had been the plan all along, it would still be here when it's ready - and not before.
You see, it does not matter. The K3 was launched 4,5 years ago, with an intermittent, rather smallish update in the form of the K3II.
Now you come and tell me, that it "was their plan all along" to bring out a K3 successor and 4,5 years later, you will have a hard time convincing me if it is still nowhere in sight, except in the eyes of those that are able to see unicorns.
And in the meantime, a KP was launched, with all bells and whistles, including a dedicated battery grip, and it is even used to showcase a DA*11-18mm f2.8 at CP+, which in your view and that of others, is a downright mismatch, searching for yet another stick to beat the KP of the stage.
Just relax, all those that hate the KP and crave the K3III. A new APS-C high end body will come, and the KP will be discontinued. You have the patience, I did not.
So in the end, in 1, 1,5 or so years time, yoú will have your craved new high end APS-C K... body, costing 1500,- or so, and I will probably upgrade too.
And I will have enjoyed the very real KP, that I can hold in my hand, and enjoy the latest Pentax technology with, for a year or more, and you will have enjoyed anticipating the not yet so very real K... assuming it was just around the corner all the time..
And who will have been right? Won't matter a bit then.
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Originally posted by jatrax Chris, I read that statement three times before I tried to answer. I'm still amazed you even typed it. How on earth do you know when they intended the K-3II replacement to be here? Certainly I don't.
The plan is the plan. And we do not know what the plan is.
I am simply following the usual upgrade cycle of the high end APS-C bodies, which would get me anywhere between spring-autumn 2019, taking the dreaded KP's launch as a latest APS-C high end release.
I don't think anyone can expect Pentax, that has problems keeping their release schedule as it is, to just churn out a higher than ever APS-C body (because that is what we want, isn't it?) at will. Remember, they have FF to develop and maintain now, and their sales are not exactly on the rise.
Nó sooner than within the normal APS-C refresh timeline, that is my realistic reasoning.
As I said, I ate too much unicorn bread already, and prefer to stick to realism until the K... is true.
Chris