Originally posted by Vylen Indeed, it's been mentioned before in at least the interview at Photokina that they're already working on "full-frame technologies" so this bit of news doesn't come in as much of a surprise.
It does, though, keep things make things more hopeful, but it doesn't guarantee that anything will come out of it in the near future.
It makes you wonder why Pentax, not known as a second-party supplier to others in industry AFAIK (excusing the Honeywell re-branding in the USA during the 1960s), would be working on "full-frame technologies" if it wasn't working on a corresponding body. Indeed, aside from the sensor, what is exclusively "full-frame" about anything in a camera, DSLR or otherwise? All the rest, from body package to memory, seems to be merely a matter of scale or processing speed. I suppose you could say the same about the sensor, too, to some extent at least, but if you're not making your own then you're adapting someone else's for your own purposes.