Hi there,
I am new to the forums and actually i am more interested in the innards of cameras than their look.
OK, i have to admit that I have a bit of sense for design...(I loved to shoot with that blue K-30 when I was younger)
So I think, they should use dark brown leathering on silver edition cameras and i have a crush on those gunmetal editions. Those look so darn hot, they should be standard.
.. ok, ok, i know this is only wishful thinking and that there are other things that need more improvemnt.
Like AF speed and burst rate f.i....
But I am pretty sure we will see those improvements, since RICOH already started to offer 4k on WG-M2 and Theta V...what means they buy into faster chips,
so finally there is hope, we get away from those lousy legacy Milbeaut-chipsets... since the Theta V seems to use a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625...
...I take a good guess and say, RICOH and PENTAX engineers used the RICOH THETA V to study modern smartphone SoC Circuitry...
and gosh some of SoC-chipsets are so darn powerful, that 4K vids at even 60fps or more and fast burst rates like 10fps or more should be no more problem...
The K-1 was great at the time that it arrived, but i hope they stop developing things like the K-1II(Mark II still got these annoying wheels on which most functionality is super-redundant, instead of a nice oled display so i can permanantly switch off main LCD...and go beyond 750shots with one battery.-FX-buttons would take away less space) and the KP with the same weird NR-math coprocessor also seems to be a real showstopper compared to a K-3II ???
So whatever, there is a great chance that this time, RICOH will "kick into high gear" with their successor cameras.
And they better should ... since i see so many long loyal Pentaxians jump ship to Sony... the A7III and A6500 are hard to beat beasts.
(or one-lensed photogs jump ship back to Nikon from where they actually came for the D850)
Only good handling and weather resistancy will not keep the community alive forever... especially since Pentax is a bit behind in terms of AF(they should really improve that above all else),
RICOH would do better to deliver with its next-gens, than pussyfoot around with adding weak'n'cheap coprocessors to their boards that help with superfluous NR-maths.
(what actually looks like a desperate move and means more than inconvenient engineering)
So ... to keep things clear and misunderstandings out. I shoot only PENTAX(besides a very nice RX100IV) but sometimes I rent other bodies, if i go shooting sports events, but actually i dont want to do that, since actually i would have a nice 50-500mm Sigma DG OS HSM(which itselves AF drive is quite fast from closest to infinity) but the next bodies AF should really be able to keep up with it. Since otherwise I dont see a sense anymore in keeping alive my lenspark and love for that brand.