Originally posted by PBandJ I'm just saying it from a marketing point of view- we have Sony, fuji and nikon making announcements. The dollars are going to flow somewhere. Both canon and pentax need to let their customers know they have something in the works. Silence makes it an easy decision for buyers not to consider pentax. And if the new nikon and to a lesser extent fuji can price their FF in the k-3 range, I think that will cut into k-3 sales.
Weeks before the K-3 announcement I was very excited because of the 18-70/2.8 and TC as well. And I though that was kind of news people would love to hear, that at a major new camera release we'll finally see some major new lens designs and a TC that makes people stick with the mount and expand the usability of all current lenses.
But alas, nothing! TC postponed again! I can't actually believe it; an optics company isn't capable of designing a TC after all these years and really excite its customers during the major camera release?!
Ricoh is playing some weird game here, announce one major new camera and a rehashed, minor issue consumer zoom with it? That kind of old song lens is supposed to be announced with K500 or K50, which both were rehashes too.
K-3 alone can't do much to stand out as exciting news; this new Nikon will simply run over it and be most likely the camera of the year.
This is what millions of SLR users were begging the entire imaging industry to make for a decade! The user response for this Nikon will be overwhelming, not only in Nikon camp, but everywhere.
Well, good for Nikon — at least they do care.