Originally posted by surfar What exactly dont you understand?
I don't understand in what form they are dead.
Do they continue to function? If not, why do you still possess them?
My Q-7 most certainly is not dead. I use it less for wildlife than I had anticipated, but I'm not sure whether that means the adapted lenses are more bother than I had anticipated or whether it means that the K-30 has worked out better than I had anticipated. Its getting less use in that function is balanced out by its getting more use as the camera that I carry around with me.
In fact, I was musing about this. I certainly don't expect this, but if Pentax were to surprise us at CP+ with two MILCs, a K-mount based on the KP and a Q-mount with KP-based noise reduction, both cameras having an EVF of course, what would I do? I wouldn't have sufficient funds for both. I think the QP would go to the top of my list and the actual KP {currently at the top} would go to third place behind the K-mount MILC.
In other words, I am disappointed by Pentax's lack of vision concerning the Q-line, but I don't feel betrayed either.
added: Applying this to the original topic of this thread, I believe if I were the user of an NX, and were happy with it, I would joyfully greet the new camera. I understand how Samsung might have had to put all of their effort into keeping up with Apple, but I would be glad that they had remembered me.