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Forum: General Photography
09-30-2018, 07:22 AM
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I don't generally get hung up in all the behind the scenes workings of Pentax (or any other brand to which I'm loyal) as I've discovered my tastes aren't usually mainstream in terms of features and specs, but slightly outside the normal usage patterns, or at least slightly outside the patterns assumed/recognized by the planners and designers. This is across many types of technology products, as well.
With respect to Pentax introducing something new in an APS-C flagship, I sincerely hope they do, in early 2019, and I equally sincerely hope it's not a KP-based body, in terms of physical shape and layout. The technology of the KP is good, but the ergonomics of it don't work for me (and for many others, from what I'm seeing in web comments). It seems to me other Camara makers (who have historically had traditional DSLR models) aren't eschewing the traditional DSLR marketplace in favor of different designs or different ergonomics. Yes, mirrorless is a new niche, but CaNikon isn't dropping traditional DSLR body development to pursue it, to my knowledge. And while they make bodies in traditional and smaller physical sizes, they're not forgoing the traditional DSLR format shape to do so.
As an owner of the K-30 (my first DSLR), and a K-3, I get the compact body versus traditional body discussion. But the reality is, there is far less difference between the 30 and the 3 than there is between either of those and the KP, ergonomically.
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