I've been on this list for about 11 or 12 years now and I've seen variations of this thread more times than I can count. They all start with a rumour. Then we wail and gnash our teeth:
"Pentax is abandoning the enthusiast market!" "I'll have to sell or get rid of my valueless Pentax gear and buy [insert brand here]." "How will Pentax survive without a dslr (or on the old days, an slr)? Whatever we do?" Girls and boys, this is only a rumour. It's a rumour about something they may produce, not about what they're going to discontinue. I can't imagine that Pentax is not going to continue to build a flagship dslr, especially with the accolades that the K5 has garnered. I just can't imagine that whatever else they make they will not have a top-quality dslr. Even if they don't make so much (or any) money on it, they need it to anchor the line. Please remember that we're moaning about an ~unsubstantiated~ rumour. Nothing more. Steady on, mates... ;-) Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> Sent: January 20, 2012 1/20/12 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: New Pentax EVIL rumor, with specs The "specs" look like it's going to be one of those hold it out at arms length & squint at the little TV screen on the back cameras. From: David Parsons > If there is no mirror, it's pretty hard to have an optical viewfinder. > Unless you are talking about it being a rangefinder (which I don't > see Pentax doing), without a mirror, it's going to be an EVF. > > I doubt that Pentax has anything to do with these rumors. People love > to speculate. > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: >> No one seems to know if it has a built in EVF, aside from the LCD. >> From what I've seem with other companies, not mentioning the EVF means >> that it's not built in and is only an add-on if it exists at all. >> OTOH, who knows the nature of this rumor? ?I always wonder if the >> company floats these rumors to gauge reaction and then tweaks the >> final designs. >> >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:58 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: >>> From: Bong Manayon >>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Supposedly K mount and a K-5 quality sensor: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/hot-pentax-k-01-mirrorless-camera-coming-soon/ >>>> More... >>>> >>>> >>>> http://m.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/pentax-k-01-mirrorless-camera-revealed-in-february--1056080 >>> >>> >>> "without a mirror and optical viewfinder." >>> >>> I can live without the mirror, but without a viewfinder it's no use to me. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
