Oh my!! .. this topics are always like runnin in circles chasing tails.. for some people the system will be perfect for their needs as it is.. for some other the system could be not good at all.. Some of the points mention by @xmedia are true, hard, ugly, nasty true, but it will be only true to the ones that expect something else from what Ricoh is doing now and that is fine. Is Pentax as a brand running behind the other brands?? IMO yes, other systems are moving constantly and with Ricoh everything seems to be just in "stand by", just as an example, if you compare the pentaxrumors.com feed, against the sonyalpharumors.com page there is a BIG difference in announcements of every kind, and this influence the people about investing or not in a new system.
Ricoh/Pentax marketing i think that we can all agree that is THE WORST, they just simply can not sell their products at the right time, to the right people and using the right channels... for the old die folks using Pentax that might not be important, for the ones searching for a path to follow this is a "no no " thing.
Just as an example yesterday i was reading an article at
PetaPixel - Photography and Camera News, Reviews, and Inspiration (
Where Mirrorless is Headed in 2019 ) and this is how the article mentioned Pentax:
"
Pentax
Incomplete. Hasn’t showed up to class since 2014, and then only to turn in a revised homework assignment that didn’t change their grade at all.
I’m wondering if Pentax is still a student. Should I put in a missing person’s report?
Less work for me with Pentax absent, I suppose, which is fine."
and as i see it is not just about the mirrorless thing.. its about the all camera thing.. seems like Pentax is the missing student in all this crazy camera world... or is just the one that shows to the party when all the other people already ate.. that doesn't mean at all the the products are bad, it just means that their timming is way off track.. and the priorities are just mmm unknown.. for somebody that is just investing in a system and wants a path to follow this "business strategy" it is terrible..