Originally posted by luftfluss While I agree with your sentiment, somewhere along the line I recall from an interview with Ricoh that they consider the K-1 series the "flagship", the KP is the "enthusiast" body, and the K-70 is "consumer". The Ricoh folks seem mostly to view the K-mount as monolithic, and not divided into APS-C and FF columns.
I recall that statement as well, though they never specifically said the K1ii had superseded the K3ii as flagship. Don't forget the
K3ii was still available for a time when the K1 was first released. But we, the noisy zealots of Pentaxdom have demanded a
flagship APS-C, so very soon there will (again) be two flagship bodies.
All of this is of course just semantics, just as is the term 'pro' body. It really doesn't matter if the K-New is a co-flagship with
the FF body. What does matter is that the KP wasn't quite the successor to the K3 line and quite a few Pentaxians were
not satisfied to move to FF as an answer. Kudos to Ricoh for hearing that audience, I among them.