Originally posted by Aristophanes
And Nikon is doing it for $1700. Multiple vendors. Kills high-end APS-C.
One wonders why Pentax wouldn't have tried to
skate to the where the puck will be then, and haven't been releasing FF-capable lenses on a roadmap for the last few years, lenses that would have sold well to aps-c customers in the meantime as well - instead of setting themselves up for playing from behind again? (And remember, for the past three years you've argued for
stasis on Pentax's part here.)
I guess it's possible that Ricoh will throw Pentax into the mix with a FF body and six lenses in the first 18 months, but it's going to be very expensive to expand factory capacity and assembly lines to do so that quickly, and they've lost a chunk of potential upgraders in the meantime.
Or, they'll try to compete in the possibly-shrinking lower-end aps-c DSLR market with Canon and Nikon, at lower margins than upper-end aps-c or FF. Hmm..
Well, they can always try to compete with Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Olympus, and Fuji in the MILC/Fixed segment. Hmm..
Alas... there's always medium format.
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