Originally posted by Larrymc What stopped your from buying another camera???
I felt the K200 was a good upgrade from the K100, so I bought that. I felt the K-5 was a massive upgrade from the K200, so I bought that. I wanted a second body (the K200 wasn't even good enough for that once I got the first K-5), so I bought a K-5ii. The K-3whatever was a big snore for me, and based on the frequency of then-"flagship" releases, it only made sense to wait a couple of years (ha!) for the next one. The KP got a pretty lukewarm reaction here on PF until all of sudden it became the only semi-serious crop body Pentax offered. Only now are we seeing the love, and posts like "well, it turns out I didn't really want that top LCD after all!" and "well, you can always carry more batteries!" or "hey I hardly notice that grip on there at all, just makes it easier to hold!" Seriously, I don't think the day-one reaction to the KP was anything like the reaction to the K-5. And the K-3... well that got a mixed reaction compared to the K-5 at its introduction too: there was more whining about lack of moving the AF needle. Yes, there were a few initial K-5 AF gripes too (and definitely after the tungsten issue came out!), but not so much right away. And despite most of the technologies being long-in-the-tooth by the time it was introduced, the K5iis... wow what a love fest that was (never really saw that myself, but whatever.)
But also significantly, I've also been reluctant to spend a lot on a new body because while all this was happening, third-party lens producers were officially dropping Pentax. I wanted to acquire better lenses. I broke down and bought two new Pentax lenses in 2016, but overall I was hoping to see more updates to the APS-C lenses. As it turns out I got some updates, just not all of them in lenses I both wanted and could actually use on my bodies. I might have spent for newer lenses I wanted alone, but newer lenses plus newer bodies - the latter frankly not necessarily having upgrades important to me - would have been a bigger leap of faith that I haven't been willing to take. Now of course we've had the pandemic for a year; it's likely to be with us and prevent me from doing most of the photography I'd planned on for at least the rest of 2021, so unfortunately I can afford to wait and see what the market looks like in 2022.