Originally posted by Nubi You know, I thought they hit a home run with K10D when it came out and won a bunch of awards. Then we now have K-7. Awesome. Certainly looks like the company is moving in the right direction, but it seems like it is mainly for us Pentaxians. Does the company have any more share than they did back they when K10D came out? Maybe this is a losing battle; no matter how good your products are, you just cannot go beyond Goliath(s)???
The K10D won the TIPA Award for 2007 & was praised worldwide.
This was the dslr touted to make Pentax become a player - yet it didn't.
20D was the first with a 14mp cmos sensor & lens focus calibration - still nothing
K7 - the smallest, semi-pro dslr out there - still not much love goin on
Maybe Pentax marketing/sales guru's should be looking at the WHY?
My son (22) thinks the Red Kx is ultra cool - BUT - the moment he found out that it didn't have highlighted focus points his enthusiasm cooled dramatically.
I can say right now that if the kx had focus points and a quieter shutter it would be just better.