Originally posted by rlatjsrud Since they don't have FF body, they are focusing on the best Crop camera in the world such as K-7, 5, and 3. but problems is they do not give any expectations. They showed very few lenses. because of that, many users can't come to Pentax as Canon, Nickon, and Sony. Also there isn't any strong point of Pentax camera. Such as Nickon for Sport and Sony for innovation(mirrorless FF). Sony have just showed the first mirrorless FF. This give a lot of expectations already. Also they are already plan 15 lenses until 2015! What about Pentax? For several years, they showed only few lenses less then 5 lenses... That's so stupid. Pentax does not know what customers wanted. If this happen continually, Pentax will fall like Kodack and Contax did. Remaking to HD limit is kind of stupid too. Why don't they do anything faster? No more innovative things?
How is K-3 not innovative? It is the only camera that does what it does right now, until 7Dii and D400 comes out.
Talking about innovation, Pentax has no capital like Canikon did. Keeping that in mind, what they've come up with in recent years are actually impressive (DA 15, K-3, DA 60-250, O-GPS1). Now that they're backed by Ricoh we might start see things shaking up even more. I truly wish K-3 alleviates all our AF concerns, since that's Pentax's last true achilles heel.
Sony planned so many lenses because they can't afford not to. Their lineup is nowhere near complete.
Pentax OTOH has the most complete APSC lineup in the whole industry.
Out of curiosity what do you think is missing from the Pentax lineup? Imho we're only missing an update to the DA* SDM lenses, and that's it. We also have the screwdrive hack these days, so it's not even high priority anymore.
You might argue that we're missing a high quality, wide aperture normal that's reasonably priced, but Sigma already has that covered. Aaaaand Canikon dont have one either! The AFS 35/1.4 and Canon 35/1.4 are expensive, moreso than FA 31.
And also FF, but that's been in "the works" since forever, no need to hold our breaths, it will come when it comes.