Originally posted by Rico Ricoh should not do what Canon and Nikon have done creating a whole new mount for mirrorless.
IMO thats a key factor.. the point here is not if mirrorless is better than DSLR or the other way.. my concern and what im afraid of is that if RICOH/Pentax doesn't jump on the boat or do something extraordinary soon there will not be such a market for them to make it profitable, and they will just shut down the production. That worrys me because how good will it be for us to invest thousands of $$$$ in a new camera or lenses of a brand that we dont know if will survive another "market punch"? of course the cameras will be there, we will have our lovely K5s, K3s, KPs, K1s for who knows how long.. but eventually those models will become obsolete in a short time or will just break, so not having the attitude to follow a market path, like it or not, will affect us at different levels.
645 mirrorless is a good concept, but that will be expensive, and how many Pentaxians will invest in such a system? it is a nichy market too (same as the K1 is), besides it will have to compete with the Fuji system, so it have to be equal or better than what Fuji did, same thing is going on with the new Canikon mirrorless, people expected to be equal or better than Sony's and many of them are just disappointed with what they got.
IMO is not if we want a mirrorless Pentax camera, it's just that eventually i think that the market is telling us that it might be the path to follow to not be left behind. Same as when digital cameras came to the market..or when AF came to the market, or when digital FF start being the favorite pros tool instead of APS-C... it's just what the market shows, but ofcourse I could be totally wrong.
Last edited by kooks; 09-06-2018 at 08:46 PM.