Because it would involve actual strategic planning and risk taking.
Pentax has been risk adverse for so long that it's amazing that it
hasn't infected all of Ricoh. I always thought that Pentax missed a
bet by not having an accessory EVF that would work on both the K-01 and
Q series cameras, absent actually re-engineering the guts of the K-01 to
make space for an EVF in say the the top left corner of the body. It
would have made a lot of people take both cameras a lot more
seriously. Now it appears the Q is following the K-01 into quite
obscurity. Soon to be flushed down the memory hole. Even Q lenses
have disappeared from the ricoh-Imaging website now. No discontinuing
the product announcement, just letting it fade away.
Let's face it the Q and the K-01 were both big risks, but the bean
counters minimized the risks to such an extent that if they did have
long term viability it was compromised from the very beginning.
I fully expect that if Ricoh lets the Ricoh-Imaging division, (which
really does seem to be in large part Pentax's engineering group and
camera marketing arm), actually create a mirrorless system camera that
it will more closely resemble in specifications the "Kodak" S1 not a
Panasonic G anything or Olympus OM-D.
On 1/15/2017 11:04 AM, John wrote:
The drawing shows a hot shoe.
Don't some other brands of mirrorless cameras have an electronic
viewfinder that mounts to the hot shoe? Why shouldn't Pentax?
On 1/15/2017 1:00 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Want to bet that retro design like the MX-1 means the same thing as no
built in view finder electronic or otherwise and no provision for one
either.
On 1/14/2017 10:54 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
Following on from the thread "Pentax KP??", here's another rumour...
http://pentaxrumors.com/2017/01/14/rumors-from-japanese-magazine-pentax-m-e-mirrorless-camera/
Cheers
Brian
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Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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