Originally posted by ogl It will be Optio X70. I see no any sense in such camera.
…and there may well be none, but it doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist.
Not to put too fine a point on it, if such a camera doesn't make sense, why do Nikon and Canon have similar ones? It may not make sense to a bunch of people who have been using film and digital SLRs for years, because we know what we want from a camera (well, most of us, hopefully). As has been pointed out many times in this forum, we're the minority in the marketplace.
One would hope that the well-paid marketing types in Pentax/Hoya have done enough research to know whether or not it makes sense from a strategic as well as a sales perspective.