Originally posted by stevebrot Sorry Nikon is neglecting Siberia. The cameras are widely available here in the Portland, Oregon region, both in regular camera and Big Box stores...all at full price. There are a dozen stores within 45 minute drive of me having both bodies and lenses.
As for the J5 being long in the tooth, the same is true of the Pentax K-3II. Perhaps we can ask DPR to start a rumor that Ricoh is no longer going to offer a flagship APS-C body since they have not announced a successor.
The "1" line may well be finished, but the evidence for the rumor (third hand in the link above) is a little weak.
Steve
Traditionally, Nikon has had a couple of different cameras going in the system and up dated them every year -- meaning that there was a new camera in the 1 series coming out every six months. They've had 9 1 series cameras over the last four years, but the last one was released over a year ago. It isn't hard to see that either the cameras haven't caught on the way Nikon had hoped or, that Nikon just doesn't know where to go with them.
The obvious thing would be to add 4K video, but they haven't really done that, but maybe they just don't think even with that feature the cameras will catch on.
I had always thought that Nikon was marketing them as relatively cheap sports cameras, while Pentax emphasized the portability aspect of the Q system. But it seems as though folks are gravitating to either larger sensors or cell phone cameras and not much in the middle.