Originally posted by awscreo Whatever floats your boat Steve
Sorry for being a curmudgeonly grump.
I guess I just don't understand the tradition on this site of firmware update angst. I mean that honestly and not as grumpy sarcasm. It is super cool when performance improvements or new features are passed to us as firmware updates. It is also very cool when problems are characterized and fixed and the patch pushed in a timely manner. My experience as a Pentax dSLR owner over the last decade or so is that Pentax, Hoya, and now Ricoh have been responsive and appropriate in both regards. I will admit, though, that I have only installed three firmware updates on my K-3 since I bought it in Spring of 2014, despite several those updates having new and valuable features. I am really not that into updates.
I will also admit to being a little miffed when the red-light rear screen option was back-migrated to the K-3II, but not the K-3, but what the hay. I bought the camera knowing that it had no such feature, so I held my tongue. That being said, I do feel for those whose enjoyment of their purchase is dampened by lack of anticipated performance or absence of a doable and potentially useful feature. It would be nice if the improved AF from the K-1II would be migrated to the K-1 and any other models where it might be possible, AF performance being what it is on Pentax. It would also be nice to see mechanical SR for video come back. Whether that is possible as a firmware feature is hard to say, but even as a hardware feature on a new product, it would be very nice to have.
The short story is that even though it is unlikely that Ricoh/Pentax will do what one wants them to do and even less likely that they will do so promptly via a firmware update, there is no real problem with hoping for that update or expressing disappointment when the feature isn't there.
I will try and remember that on future threads of this sort and not suggest that people buy a Fuji
Steve