Originally posted by surfar Maybe never,seeing its in many of their lenses AND its in the lenses of the 3rd party lens makers that support them.
Probably take the same time to develop as it takes for Pentax to get their PRIMES to market.
Well, for Fuji,they attacked the weakest point in the market with great success.So much so that the revenue generated will bring a budget MF body to market this year that no one will match for price or quality.Next year they bring the 100mp body to market,i suppose their modern lenses will have expanded from the 6 present ones to around the double figure mark by then.
Olympus and Panasonic share M43,neither need to do FF when they own that segment.Many who are sick of the weight of Dslr love the compactness of some of the bodies and lightweight lenses...Both those companies do some OK video too.Their high res modes are a bit like PS.
Yes,of course...But Pentax is 5-15 years behind in what?..lots,but pixel shift counteracts that?Beauty IS in the eye of the beholder!
Thanks for helping me make my point -- all the different camera makers "attack" different weak points of the other camera makers (and have weak points as well that their customer don't care much about).
Pentax offers 5-axis stabilization on 100% of their lenses old* and new. Canikon & 3rd parties only offers obsolete 4-axis on some of their lenses. Canikon can't do horizon leveling, roll-angle shake stabilization, or astrotracer. Some photographers really want the best stabilization possible and others are fine with limited or no stabilization.
Fuji, Olympus, and Panasonic don't "need" to offer FF just as Pentax does not "need" to offer M43. Different photographers have different opinions on optimal body size and sensor size.
Every photographer has their own definition of what counts as a strength/essential feature and what counts as a weakness/failure. In some cases such as EVF/OVF and even weight what counts as essential to one photographer is considered an failure to another photographer.
You and I may not agree on what makes a camera strong or weak but we can agree that beauty IS in the eye of the beholder!
EDIT: *Technically, only lenses with at least a KAF or better mount get stabilized in all 5 axes but that's almost 3 decades of lenses. Can Canikon owners even use lenses that old? (It's just another strength/weakness issue that matters to some and not others).