I think the nex-6 has a standard hot shoe. There was a big backlash against sony for changing the shoe. I would never personally buy a sony camera. I think their record with consumers and trying to lock them in to proprietary accessories as well pulling stunts like putting illegal rootkits on their music CDs has made me avoid them like the plague. Too bad too, because in the 90s they made some decent sound equipment and had a rich history with audio and TV equipment. Their laptops used to be quality too. I never liked SLT personally. My guess is that they go mirrorless entirely or that they do something totally different. Maybe even make the option to flip the mirror. There are some fierce rumors going around that they are looking to abandon DSLRs entirely so nothing would surprise me. It really is too bad that pentax doesn't have any cameras in stores here in the US. They might actually sell more if they *advertised* and got cameras out there. Does Pentax USA even have a marketing dept? :(
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:18 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > The Tiger Direct store here in Raleigh has a couple of Sony models in > stock. I go in there every Wednesday & one of the things I look at is > the cameras, because they were the only store that ever had any NEW > Pentax DSLRs in stock. They had the K-x, the K-r and most recently the > K-30. They haven't had any K-30s for the last month or so. > > All three Sony models they have on display in the store have that funky > hot shoe. > > From: "P.J. Alling" > >> I remember reading that Sony has replaced the Minolta proprietary hot >> shoe with something else weather it's another proprietary mount based on >> the ISO standard or something else, I don't know. The local Camera >> store that carries Sony only has the NEX line in stock. >> >> On 7/3/2013 6:10 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>> From: "P.J. Alling" >>>> >>>> When Pentax was first acquired by Ricoh, I read on someone's photography >>>> blog that Ricoh, wanted a prestige name on a prestige product, but >>>> unfortunately between Ricoh and Pentax they thought that Ricoh was the >>>> prestige name. Pentax/Ricoh imaging was just an interim name until the >>>> merger of assets was complete. Will they rebrand the SLR line as Ricoh, >>>> who knows but if they didn't intend to continue making SLR's Ricoh could >>>> have killed the K-50 and K-500. They didn't so we'll just have to wait >>>> and see. >>> >>> >>> I don't really care if the name on the front of the camera or the lenses >>> is Pentax or Ricoh, as long as my K-mount lenses still work & we don't >>> go back to the days of that problem where the lenses got stuck & you >>> couldn't get them to come off. >>> >>> Sony bought Minolta & the name went away. But, old Minolta lenses are >>> still compatible with Sony's Minolta lens mount (AFAIK) & you still have >>> to use an adapter to mount a hot-shoe flash on that funky proprietary >>> mount Minolta had. >>> >>> So, I don't think this is the end of the world ... YET. > > > > -- > 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.
