Originally posted by Fenwoodian Two main reason's I won't buy:
1.I prefer my newer Fuji X mirrorless bodies for my APS-C needs. They are small, have great ergonomics, can accept more adapted lenses than any DSLR, and they do good 4K video. 2. For my serious still images, I use my Pentax K-1's. I likely will never upgrade from them as they do everything that I need and then some. Minty low-mileage K-1's are regularly sold here in the market place for around $1,000 USD. I suspect the K-New will sell for hundreds of dollars more than that. Let's see, a minty used full-frame K-1 vs a more expensive APS-C K-new? That's an easy decision for me. The fabulous Pentax K-1 has spoiled me, I'll never look at another stills camera, not even a new Pentax one.
So, this is something that I am hearing often, and cannot help but wholeheartedly agree.
The market trend is that it is shifting towards mirrorless FF. That is absolutely NOT too say that there is not a market or appropriate use fo APS-C. That being said, the market and the area of use where APS-C offer significant advantages is at best not large, if not pretty limited. Then - Fuji has a compelling line up of APS-C cams that accept slew of lenses.
OVF vs EVF argument aside, the question is that would I want to pay near $2,000 or more (or less perhaps but not much less I imagine if that is the case), no matter how much better AF or OVF maybe, as I am not shooting flying birds. I am sooo much better off buying two gently used K-1s in the market place here as back ups. When I put K3 and K-1 side by side - for me the difference in size is not exactly overwhelming. Yeah once you start attaching long teles K-1 set up can become somewhat overwhelming. But other than that - I just don't see much of an advantage for what I do.
I cannot help but feel what an awesome K-new would be if this came out before K-1. I doubt it but it may have prevented me from buying K-1, perhaps not altogether but at least for a little while.
I do think that there are plenty of reasons to pursue this camera. If you have a complete line up of DA limiteds - that would be a good enough reason. I sold most of mine (other than DA ltd 35/2.8 Macro) when I bought K-1.
So I am not feeling it - but I probably still end up buying this camera just for the curiosity of it. I would probably wait, to make sure that knobs won't fall off or whatever.