Originally posted by Class A BTW, why are you calling yourself a Pentaxian when you seem to use every opportunity to bash Pentax? I really do admire your measurbations but I find it kind of sad that you are using a lot of energy in a negative way rather than being more positive (perhaps with a different brand?).
I have to agree. I thought RH's bashing of Pentax on this forum was odd enough, but when looking at his web page and blog I'm really amazed. Why he still bother about Pentax is impossible to understand. If he invested this enormous engagement to stop global warming, starvation in poor third world countries, against dictators, against environmental pollution, against torture in prisons, against extinction of species... I could understand this. If he invested this engagement for the advance of his political ideology or religion I could understand it even if those happened to be fundamentally different from my own ideas, because these are matters worthy of such engagement. But to devote so much time and effort on the bashing of a brand is incredible. If it was about Pentax polluting the environment, having child labors or something like that I could understand it. But it is only because he does not like Pentax products. So it is a free market. He should go to another brand and do something productive with all the time he invest in this. Like using the cameras of that other brand to take pictures. Or do fight the extinction of whales or something like that. But he is of course free to continue...but I notice I tend more and more to just ignore his posts. Not because the details is always wrong, but because they make me sort of sad. He might reply now that I'm a "fan-boy" hurt because he criticize my brand, since I do not expect him to understand that what makes me sad is to watch the results of a life at least partly wasted.
Wow, I'm usually more polite than that, but it has been growing inside me while watching his bashing and ranting. Back to main topic: I would not mind seeing Pentax FF, I certainly would like it from a technical and artistic point of view, and the possibility alone to mount the A*135 on FF digital would make it worth it. I'd also be happy to see a 645D...the 645 system was a dream I never fulfilled. This does not mean that I consider my current DSLR pentax bad or inferior, and I do understand and appreciate that Pentax decided to go for a very complete APS-C lens line. But while welcoming FF or 645D from a technical/artistic point of view, I would not like to see it if there is a risk that Pentax may suffer economically from it, and I do not understand enough of the camera market to feel certain that any of them would be an economical success. I choose to trust Pentax (or Hoya perhaps since the old Pentax might have just marketed something like that as soon as it was technically ready with not so much consideration of the economical side) if they decide to be careful. Historically, while Pentax often been innovative, they have just as often been conservative: they was late with bayonet, they were late both with auto focus and digital SLR. While they were wrong in those cases, I believe, as much as a layman dare to, that there is reason to be careful. For what we know, especially the 645D, but maybe the FF also, could be produced relatively soon, but Pentax/Hoya will not launch them if they don't think it will be profitable. You can argue as much as you want, but it will take some years before we know for sure if even the bigger companies are able to profit on FF, or if the medium format digital market will survive. Better late than broke.