Originally posted by ogl What about Fuji?
Alas, Ricoh doesn't act as Sigma, Hasselblad, Leica, Sigma, Fuji...It acts like almost invisible or vague player...
Closed club for special users. Mason's lodge
Fuji's APS-C lineup is also very good, but they offer slightly different things right? They have more emphasis in fast lenses while Pentax has the upper hand in compactness (the 15/21/40/70 DA Limiteds only really have their counterpart in the 18 and 27mm pancakes).
On the tele side, the only lenses over 200mm in X-Mount are the 50-230 (F/4.5-6.7) and the 2000€ 100-400mm zoom, while Pentax has the 55-300, 60-250, 18-270, 300 and 560mm lenses. Not even mentioning the wealth of older Pentax-M/A/F glass than can be put to work directly without any problems, because that's not the point here.
Don't get me wrong, Fuji is the only other system that, to me, makes sense as an APS-C shooter that wants dedicated lenses, but I still think that Pentax is slightly ahead.