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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-20-2017, 07:55 AM
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I think it is a little like my kids when I tell them that we will be going to the zoo next week. Every day they ask me, "Is it today." Same is true if Pentax indicates that 'x' lens is coming, but doesn't indicate when.
If Pentax is planning to release a particular lens, but don't have any fixed plans for when it will be done, they are probably better of not announcing it all. If they know it will be done and available for order as of August, then it makes more sense to announce it. Unfortunately, I think this means that there probably aren't many medium format lenses that are particularly close to release.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-19-2017, 06:39 PM
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I think I exaggerated. But since the Fuji GFX announcement, it has been repeated numerous times that Fuji is releasing three lenses with the camera and that Pentax has a hard time releasing a new lens for the 645z every couple of years. I think the lack of the DFA 25mm kind of hurts as well, as there are no true wide angle primes in the system right now.
But there is no doubt that Pentax has focused on the K-1 and glass for it, of late, and the medium format folks have had to wait as a result. The fact that Pentax doesn't pre-announce stuff doesn't help the waiting either.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-19-2017, 01:31 PM
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Your statements are a little problematic.
By definition, medium format is going to be a very small segment of the market. This is true regardless of whether Pentax has a new mount with mirrorless or not. The GFX is not going to be competing, even with the K-1 in sales, much less cameras like the D810.
The whole idea of adapting lenses to medium format is only worthwhile if (as you do), you already own medium format lenses. If you don't, then this whole thing is less attractive.
The older lenses are generally going to be relatively long on a crop medium format camera as well and new glass is probably going to be required to take advantage of the sensor.
The real problem for Pentax is not the mirror, it is the lack of investment in new glass and therefore the impression that the 645z is an unwanted step child that they inherited from Hoya. Put some serious optics on the market and release a full frame medium format mirrored camera and they'll be fine.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-15-2017, 02:45 AM
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They just don't do that. The only way to know that new gear is coming out is when prices drop on existing camera bodies. I think Ricoh hates to set dates because then they have to meet them and if they give hints about what they are working on, then they also steal some of the splash from the new release when they actually announce a new product.
I guess the bigger question has to do with new lenses for medium format and probably not so much with a new camera body, although I'm sure they are working on one.
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