Originally posted by monochrome This is really fairly simple.*
The best answer to 'why' is probably Pentax through market research doesn't think enough people would buy a Pentax full Retro camera (as the OP defines 'full') to justify making it.
*The OP wants a camera operating interface. He wants his Want and he asked why Pentax has (so far) chosen not to offer a camera that satisfies his Want. Responses have described Pentax's choices to emulate what the OP wants. We're arguing with his Want, or asking why he would want that (allegedly inferior) Want. That's pointless. He wants that Want.
Then why doesn't he just buy what he wants?
Maybe Pentax owns his mind and he can't conceive of getting what he wants from a camera brand other than Pentax. OP, open your mind, there's more than Pentax in the world.
Just another 'Pentax should do what it does, and everything everyone else does too." thread.
It's not enough that the K-1 gives me IQ I thought I would never have been able to afford, good enough to end my thoughts of picking up a used 645D. Good enough, that for most of what I do it's overkill and I tend to use it as a "big gun" and leave it home when smaller will be better, and by far the best IQ per dollar out there, yet some folks are just never happy. It doesn't matter how good it gets, it's not good enough for them.