Originally posted by RonHendriks1966 There is a new camera coming...and that will not only be a "successor" to the K-3ii, but also replace the KP. And then the question is, wich one does it follow the most?
It should be none of the KP or K3. They should make use of electronic shutter as much as possible and automatically, to allow fast frame rates, low vibrations, best IQ. It should be , IMO a sensor driven machine, with mirror as an ad-on feature. Current Pentax camera are DSLR with a LV add-on. IMO, when the camera is in LV mode, it should be 100% electronic, completely silent with access to all camera controls without dropping the mirror, and when the camera use the optical path same thing. They should also drop the dial on top of the K1, kirky on the K1 but weird to use, replace 1 mode dial by software setting, and so have 2 big dials on top on each side of viewfinder, a nice square LCD on top. With such expensive camera, people shoot raw and develop with LR, it makes no sense to have all those gimmick features that clog the menus. It's better to have usbc charging and a high performance wifi connection with free software to access photographs via image processing software on PC, Android, iOS. Ricoh have to ditch some of the old software stuff from Pentax that in 2020 will not make sense anymore: ditch pixel shift, ditch OAA simulator etc... all these things are used for playing around, but never used for serious photography. Now if they keep pixel shift, instead of automatic stacking, they must also generate flat raw files so that they don't have to care about how third party software deal with pixel shift. Pentax was Ok, lacking on AF but the rest was fine, Ricoh got lost by adding more complexity to the firmware that most people never use. Make a Pentax camera that is rugged, simple to control and fast to operate, and with good wireless data transfer to external devices. Keep the K mount, built a camera that is quicker to operate and more silent.
Last edited by biz-engineer; 03-02-2019 at 09:38 AM.