Originally posted by richandfleur I actually do wish that Pentax would release a stripped down camera, leica seem to be the only one doing it. Nikon produced the DF without video features for example. It was a bit of a flop.
Canon also does a version of the 1D with no video. None of the 'Without video' models from any brand are sales hits.
Originally posted by richandfleur It's a funny one for sure, but someone wanting developments in video is clearly out of the norm, not one of us, and would take resources away from core important features etc etc.
I reject that as myth about resource usage, completely. It doesn't take any resources away, it just uses them fully.
Heck, developing Constant AF for Video would accelerate the development of Stills AF. There's some samples of the AF available on the G85, where video development has lead to Tracking AF that virtually never misses a shot. Sony's E-mount cameras, the A7 and A9 for Stills and video, benefit directly from the AF developed for the FS100, FS700, FS7 and FS5.
Those 'Cine' cameras all use the same lenses as the A7 and A9, and include focus tracking to work around the lens's varifocal nature.
Now, a stripped down 'begineer' model, say, specced about the same as the K-30 was for the sensor, but with only basic features, offered at a price around US$600, that would be the gateway model to get users interested, and it's video spec could retain what Pentax has been doing for the last decade.
4K will have to come - they figured it out for the Theata, and spherical video should actually be harder, since you need to blend the images from two sensors to do it.