I would agree except, they can't really afford to give up any ground.
Pentax is known, as far as it is known, for having one of the best, if
not the best line of dedicated APS-C lenses, many like the limited line,
of extremely high build quality.
The K-1 is needlessly large compared to the K-3/5/P cameras, if you want
a relatively light compact DSLR, and you've got a bunch of DA limited
primes, telling people they live with a K-1 ff camera in crop mode at
15mp, and selling for 1 1/2 to 2 times the price of a 24mp, APS-C body
will drive prospective users to someone who makes what they want.
Ricoh's APS-C flagship doesn't have to have any thing near the
specifications of say a Nikon D500, but Pentax has to have at least be a
serious, contender to the N7xxx.
There are enough rumors of Pentax' eminent demise, not having a viable
APS-C flagship, with at least some actual improvements over the K-3II
will not help. There needs to be a Pentax APS-C flagship just to remain
viable in the minds of the buying public. (Let's not get started on
advertising and distribution, that's another story).
On 11/14/2018 3:12 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote:
The k-1 works just fine as an aps camera. With their limited resources it would
make sense to only have one flagship.
On November 14, 2018 11:02:59 AM PST, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote:
Hi All,
While considering various options of replacing my failed camera, I've
considered of what would be the next steps of Pentax with respect to
the
new models.
Asahi Man (a reputable Pentax-insider information leaker on dpreview)
indicated that Pentax has a big focus on FF cameras and lenses in the
upcoming year (which is apparently a big 100 anniversary year for
Pentax, or, more exactly, Asahi Kogaku Goshi Kaisha).
In his recent posts, I haven't seen any mentioning of the APS-C line.
The last flagship APS-C camera (K-3ii) was released 3.5 years ago (Apr.
2015), about 1.5 years after K-3 (October 2013).
I might be wrong, but it seems to me (and it looks like some other
people,
including at least some PDMLers were of the same opinion) that
KP, announced in January 2017 (more than 1.5 years ago) was positioned
a
bit below K-3, even though it is clearly above the "second-tier" (K-50,
K-70) product line, and its release is in the time line corresponding
to the
flagship line. (Actually, my memory is a bit vague about the
parameters that made KP inferior to K-3.)
(You can see the summary of DSLR production years e.g. here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_cameras#K_Series_(Digital) )
This suggests that Pentax probably somewhat lowered their top APS-C
line
in favor of the FF line, and the next APS-C body when and IF it comes
out
(which I'd expected to happen before the holiday season, but it didn't
happen, - so, maybe in spring of 2019), - it might not have all the
desired features that K-3/K-3ii had.
The impression I've got is that APS-C cameras might no longer be a
priority for Pentax R&D, and Pentax will just continue some incremental
releases in this area.
I realize that its a pure speculation at this point, but I was curious
about the thoughts of other PDMLers on this issue.
Cheers,
Igor
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