I am very impressed by the action performance of the new Sony A9 mirrorless FF flagship:
Serious speed: Sony a9 real world samples gallery
Serious speed: Sony a9 real world samples gallery
It's been a long week since the Sony a9 announcement, but now we're finally able to show you our real wo...
With this advance in mirrorless technology, Sony is challenging Canon and Nikon pro sports machine gun DSLRs.
And IMO it also challenges the future of the whole DSLR market.
If Sony wins the high end sports pro market, within a few years, when this technology will be available in more affordable models, like $2000 FF bodies or $1500 APS-C, DSLR market shares might collapse as fast as film photography 10 years ago.
I hope Ricoh Imaging will be able to offer a future to Pentax to survive to this challenge .
Hence my suggestion of the development of a FF mirrorless K-mount: no adapter, having a thinner camera doesnt really matter for a FF system, what matters is to rely on a well established modern lenses echosystem.
In such a move, it would be useless for Ricoh to spend any more R&D on improving OVF PDAF, the urgence would be to develop from scratch a working on-sensor PDAF: it wont need to perform as well as SonyA9, but it must at least equal Fuji APS-C or Sony A6500 AF performance.
When this technology will be available in entry level ILC cameras ($500-$1000 APS-C or M43 with kit lens) and advanced 1" fixed lens cameras ( $1000/1500 pocketable and superzoom bridge like Sony RX100 and RX10), and once the pro level gear will have switch to mirrorless, entry level Canon and Nikon DSLRs might also be wiped off the hobbiists market.
Last edited by BigMackCam; 04-28-2017 at 03:25 AM.
Reason: Title edited for relevance to Pentax