Originally posted by Pentikonian I'm already not too sure about the Q and how well it will do. And a "yeah, me too" Fuji/ Leica clone/ imitation?
The X100 / x1 model: Sell a camera.
The dSLR model: Sell a camera. Then sell a bunch of lenses.
The GXR+ model. Sell a camera, and a mountor, and some lenses. Then sell more mountors and lenses.
Fixed-lens cameras box themselves into a corner.
The original GXR lensor model is a little better, but not much.
The dSLR model seems to be working quite well, and is expanding.
The GXR+ model... well, that's in its infancy, but it has potential to be huge.
No, I don't expect a Pentax fixed-lens camera, that's a commercial dead-end. One sale and it's over. The trick for sustainability is to get the buyer hooked and make them come back for more and more and more. The GXR body+mountors+lenses model should do just that. But fixed-lens camera? That's a glorified P&S. No room for expansion. Feh.