Originally posted by derekkite Oddly enough I think the entire market is saturated with unbelievably great camera bodies and lenses. .
I think the APSC market is a dead end, unfortunately. Maybe Ricoh will see a niche there when the big guys don't replenish the incredible inventory of unsold APSC bodies floating around. I'm seeing D7000's for sale at retail in my small town.
I get the impression the D850 is like a K5II => K3 upgrade; a few more goodies but slightly decreased IQ. Again, those are expensive bodies. I'm seeing the D850 replacing aging D5's.
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I think comparing people shooting Pentax to Nikon and Canon is a bad way to look at things. If everyone was your typical Nikon and Canon shooter there would only be two brands and Pentax would be gone. This discussion has gone on for a while, dating back to at least the K10D, but no doubt longer than that.
There are plenty of folks on this forum who either have no interest in the K-1 or who actually had a K-1 and sold it and got a KP or who sold it and went mirrorless. There are also a lot of folks who just like their DA lenses and are choosing to use two systems. Putting a DA 21 on a K-1 doesn't quite do it for me. But I do like my FA 24 f/2 on the K-1 more than I do on the K-5IIs.
I firmly believe if Pentax releases a K-3 level APS-C body sometime in the near future when it actually matters (not so long after that no one cares, seeing as folks have been screaming for an upgrade for at least a year) I believe it will sell.
Pentax was never going head to head with Nikon and Canon so if there are unsold 7D or D7000s or whatever it doesn't mean that there would he thousands of unsold K-3IIIs.
Personally, if the KP had a bigger buffer I'd probably have bought it over a K-1. But since it wasn't exactly what I wanted, I decided to take my FA lenses for a spin at their native focal length and DOF for only slightly more than a KP could be purchased for. In some ways Pentax gave a lot of us what we wanted, a camera to use our legacy lenses on. Other than the Irix 15mm I've invested nothing in new glass for the K-1. I'm just enjoying using my old full frame glass in its native format again.