Originally posted by Expeditioneer I would love a mirrorless updated version of the K-1.
The only reason I have not bought the K-1 was the K-mount flange distance making it impossible to use glass from other manufacturers.
Pentax bodies have always provided good value for money and the option of using my canon class on a pentax with K-1-like features would make buying a no brainer.
I´would just have to wait for good adapters to arrive on the market.
I understand the idea, but one has to note, that our market share isnt as big as Sonys, therefore Ricoh would have to sell K-70 and K-P like mirrorless bodies for an absolute battle price like 350 respectively 450-500 dollar with either 18-50mm or 50-300mm plm kit lens beforehand...
if they would do that and
promote the system really big... with promoting it really big, i mean adverts in different magazines like VOGUE, mens health, playboy, billboards, etc. repeatedly for at least 2-3 years... just like Sony did when they penetrated the market with the Sony NEX cameras.
... i guess then the system would be spread wide enough, to make 3rd party producers think about making for instance a Canon EF to PENTAX ZK AF Adapter....
...because pentax itself wouldnt dare to, because they would want to sell their own lenses...
AFAIK there are only Sony A(Minolta mount) to Sony E(NEX mount) adapters directly from Sony wich offer AF and aperture functionality to users of adapted lenses.
And lookin at the Pentax side: We dont even have a Pentax 645 to Pentax K-Adapter with AF and aperture functionality(though I am pretty sure that would be doable)... much less 2 different ones like sony has for "A to NEX"...
so you better not hope you would ever see a useful canon lens adapter for a PENTAX ZK(theor. mirrorless) camera...if such a camera would be introduced at the upcoming CP+
Just think about the Tamron 150-600 lens... even though they know, Pentaxians would die for a lens with that reach-quality-price ratio... they dont build it for pentax cause
A) i guess since they are a contractor to PENTAX they are much likely to have an additional agreement to NOT produce lenses for PK so pentax can sell its 150-450 glasses first...
B) even if they would not/have no agreement with Ricoh Imaging/PENTAX, ... I am not so sure, if they ever would bring any lens for PK since the market share of Pentax K-Mount cameras is nowhere near Nikon or Canon
and if Tamron doesnt bring those lenses for K-mount you will hardly find any 3rd party camera-accessory producer that will build a functional adapter for you
most likely you would only get full manual adapters like most people who have that for mirrorless systems, give up on after using them for half a year...
If I where you, I'd rather hope on a much faster K-1, so i could feel like having Legolas at my side instead an Ork(K-1).
And if you ask me, ... looking at the FE lenses and when they are mounted on any sony a7 or a9 body, i would say, the size advantage is gone when you mount a lens on those things...
So if they want to make a (quasi-mirrorelss) they should defenitely do something like a K-01(with a more defined design) that behaves like a Sony A7RIII but in this case they should really do something about the AF system... or that ship will sink... just like the K-01 sank
(the thing people missed the most on K-01 was an EVF and a more decisive, decent and fast enough AF system...)