Originally posted by Kunzite So I was right and you don't know.
No offense, but all the above is pure speculation. And part of it is contrary to what they said.
At this Photokina, Ricoh Imaging didn't present anything Pentax besides what was already on the market (even the D FA* 50mm, of course - I had mine on my bag). For some reason (which might have to do with the organizers), they chose to have a minimal presence there. Not even the DA* 11-18mm, previously displayed in a prototype form; not that they had much room for it.
Should we believe they ceased everything Pentax? Of course not, that would be silly. The logical conclusion is: they didn't show what they're working on. The logical follow-up is that
assuming no APS-C flagship will come because they didn't show one
is deeply flawed. Assuming they should've had something ready is even worse.
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Chris, plans don't change all the time - if they did, nobody would ever do anything.
Plans do change often, but right now there is no indication their plans for APS-C changed one bit. Until you can prove otherwise (not that you weren't trying!), this document is still valid:
http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/products/lens/images/K_Mount_Lens.pdf
Mr. Takashi Arai speaking beats second hand "inside info" reinterpreted and misinterpreted on forums. Actually asahiman's posts should be interpreted in the light of such official information, not against it.
Again, I don't like speculation. I like bare "facts", or what come close to bare facts. I don't like statements such as:"but the DA*11-18mm on the roadmap
must mean that a new APSC flagship (aka K3 successor) is on the way". In that way you are trying to bend things around to come to a conclusion that is completely unfounded speculation. The DA*11-18 fits perfectly on the KP to start with. You might as well interpret the rumored FF TC's being in development as a sure sign that Pentax
must be working on a 500mm f4 lens.
The only support for a new APSC camera coming
some time in the future was the statement at CP+ about "
now starting to develop a DSLR that can be positioned as a K3 successor" and that statement was enthousiatically ignored again when asked after at Photokina. I don't give a dime for a statement like that meaning that an APSC flagship is around the corner. That is called
wishful thinking.
The "facts" such as supplied by the very sparse inside info, are positive on full frame bodies and lenses being in development right now, and negative when asked how about an new APSC body?
Multiple times already asahiman stated that full frame is in development (in two classes), but when I ask him directly in a response to his posts :"how about a new APSC body on the way?" he goes totally quiet again. It is not just asahiman, it is also the disappearance of the K3II from the shops, the repeated commitment on Pentax side on the need to build a full frame line-up.
So omitting bending the facts and vague statements, my bare and rational conclusion is, again: full frame on the way, APSC uncertain. There is nothing more at present as I can see it, and anyone will have to do his or her own calculations.
Chris