I'm pleased to learn that new lenses can arrive anytime
. But I'm a bit confused by the news about the bodies strategy, if there's one
With FF lenses they chose the high end, expensive path several years ago and stuck to it, so option #1 seemed the only viable one. Among the DFAs, if I'm not wrong the 28-105 is the only one available for less than ~1200-1500€/$. Having a high end FF body, at least like the K1, seems the only logical choice.
The APSC lineup on the other hand has many "bang for the buck" lenses, and it seemed to me that many Pentaxians were so especially for this. There are high end options options as well, but if they had to choose to keep only one body for APSC, staying in the 700-1000€ (K5, K3) price range would have seem wiser to me.
But now the bodies strategy seems to only keep the high end APSC, but an entry level FF. I don't get it: there would be only high end FF lenses with entry level FF body, and low, medium and high end APSC lenses with only a high end APSC body.
Looking at the things under this perspective, we could think that the FF line is to be dropped, but the latest releases were... Nearly only high end, FF lenses (to my greatest pleasure
).
Looks like they like to cultivate their mysterious side
Talkin' bout a resolution... Having switched to a 4K monitor a while ago, I won't go back to 24 mpx, and I'd appreciate a bump to 50-60 instead (despite the file size). 4K monitors are now affordable, and 6K/8K are already there. 24 mpx seems like a thing of the past to me, and is the only thing that made me not buy the K3-iii (viewing a 24mpx photo on a 6K monitor, you can't crop
at all...). It was high end ~ten years ago, but things have changed a bit
. I know that lower files size allow for higher frame rates, but the competition is tough and already manages to provide both. Since the release rate is something like one body every 5 years for each system, going for a ~ten years ago resolution doesn't very compelling to me.