Originally posted by Aoresteen Why buy a FF body and use it with aps-c lenses?
Whether the camera meets our expectations is at least partly dependent on our expectations. If I'm a Nikon user I can buy a D610 and a FF kit lens and be finished, or if I have the money I can buy a D810 and several expensive lenses. Yet people buy the more expensive FF. Different cameras for different buyers. This camera isn't built to attract the D610 group. It has a higher feature set and it won't be priced there.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and not just assume you are spreading FUD - -
I don't think it's necessarily true that current Pentax lenses are mostly not FF suitable even now - and I
really don't think it's going to be true in a few weeks. Many of the AF lenses labeled 'APSc' are actually fully FF capable, though not all of them. I expect a full suite of
general use D-FA lenses will be announced with the K-1, along with the four main zooms. Some of the 'new' lenses might be reworks of the existing DA lenses. The specialty items (super-teles, fast wides, f/1.2 normal) will come later.
The most important thing you should understand is it isn't necessarily true that Pentax is trying, with
this camera, to de-program a whole bunch of Canon and Nikon and Sony users. Indications from the teaser site (LX feature; all K-mount lenses compatible feature; DA*55/300/DA560 feature; SMC FA Limiteds feature) seem to indicate they plan to sell this camera to current users, and people who kept some nice Pentax lenses when they jumped ship to CaNiSony.
We'll know the initial reception in a few weeks and the level of acceptance of the K-1 in just a few months.