On 5/28/2014 7:00 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
Quoting Bruce Walker <[email protected]>:
Sounds like a truly desperate attempt to get some attention.
The whole mirrorless thing just isn't getting the traction the manus
hoped for, is it?
I wonder why that is. Quite a few on this list have gone down the
mirrorless path and I think Ricoh/Pentax is missing out by failing to get a
competitive mirrorless camera to market (competitive with the Fuji et al
offerings, that is). They've shown they have the technical know-how with
the K-01 and Q series.
Regardless, what is the point of showing off your superior technical
prowess by creating a camera for a tiny market? Especially if you are
Pentax and can't afford to (a) dilute your R&D and production
resources, and (b) spend hard-won money for poor returns. Look what
happened with the K-01.
I'm fairly sure I've bought my last DSLR (K-5) and I expect to be in the
market for something like the Fuji X-E2 about this time next year. If Ricoh
can't oblige by then, I'll be changing systems (partly, anyway).
I went for 6 years between Pentax cameras (K20D -> K-3). There's no
way I will attempt to predict what Pentax/Ricoh might be offering in
2020. But given my current direction, my next is likely to be a
successor to the 645D, which is still an SLR afaik.
Let's be honest. The K-01 was a minimal R&D effort. It was basically a
K30 without a Pentaprism/mirrorbos, that sold for about the same price
as a K30. The biggest cost to Pentax was hiring Marc Newsom to put
lipstick on the pig. If Pentax had simply copied the styling cues from a
Kodak Instamatic 100 they would have had a bigger seller, with a higher
profit margin.
If Pentax had actually spent some R&D money on fitting an EVF into it,
at least as good as the one in the Fuji Pro X 1, everyone who owns a
collection of Pentax lenses would have bought one as a second body, to
hell with what it looked like.
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