Originally posted by nonpigliounoshoot After these results, having a clearer course could bring greater security to those who like pentax products
Well, it looks like the new product releases we saw in the last two years, from all brands, were projects started before covid pandemic, assuming development times of around two years. This year was rather quiet for all brands , so far, because now we see the impact of new product start decisions made two years ago during covid and market slow down. This is regarding the camera industry as a whole. Now with Ricoh/Pentax, Ricoh will more or less follow this general trend, why would they be different? especially with Pentax having smaller market share and having decided not to develop a Pentax mirrorless eco system. The decision to continue DSLR and not to go mirrorless is a big one. Pentax not going mirrorless and not changing lens mount means there is much less need to develop new lenses, maybe refresh old lens models, but without urgency, at a slow or very slow pace. The new PentaxR&D efforts should be on the camera bodies, but there is no urgency either because new Pentax DSLR products would be incremental improvement over the current existing K mount camera line. Personally, based on the decision of Pentax remaining a DSLR product line, I don't expect much. I would expect a K1 III within the next three years, because the competitive weaknesses of the K1 are rather obvious, maybe along with one or two lenses, but that would be it for Pentax the next three to five years. The decision to stay DSLR was very strategic, such decision has a huge impact of the type and quantity of product releases because DSLR is rather mature kind of camera "tech".
Last edited by biz-engineer; 05-18-2022 at 07:31 AM.