I wasn’t proposing that Pentax enter the mirrorless market (again). I was just saying that this will cut into sales of Pentax DSLRs to people who already own Pentax lenses.
Unless, of course, Pentax licensed the technology for the mount to Monster, and can collect royalties equivalent to the profit from a body… Rick > On Nov 16, 2020, at 11:41 AM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Pentax has become an also ran in the (D)SLR market. They would already be an > also ran in the mirrorless camera market if they introduced a camera last > March (8 months ago). > They have nothing to gain by going after a market that is already saturated, > especially with camera sales in freefall. > Sony is in the process of getting out of the SLR business to concentrate on > mirrorless, Canon will probably follow suit, dropping the EOS SLR line > entirely and forcing EF users into the RF mount with an adapter. > Nikon will probably try to stay in the SLR market, but they are, at the > moment, on the ropes and punch drunk. > If, as I predict, Sony and Canon leave the SLR market, that will leave it to > Nikon and Pentax, with Nikon more than likley only supporting DSLRs with > their very top end cameras. > Canon, Nikon and Sony are in deep shit because they have huge infrastructures > with an increasingly small market to serve. Their entire business model has > been based on selling lots of cheap cameras to consumers with a rapid product > line renewal to keep it's customers on a buying hamster wheel. > The market for SLRs isn't going away, any more than the market for > rangefinders went away six decades ago. It will shrink, but a small company > with limited infrastructure demands will do quite well serving that market. > Pentax is very well positioned to just keep doing what it does. > Jumping into mirrorless would be following the lemmings over the cliff. > > > bill > > > > On 11/15/2020 9:32 PM, Alan C wrote: >> I've tried to respond to Rick's comment three times but it somehow doesn't >> get to the PDML. Now I've tries some heavy pruning. >> Pentax did venture into the mirrorless realm with the K-01, essentially a >> k-mount mirrorless K5 - much bigger than a 4/3. Brian Walters feels it was a >> missed opportunity since, without an EVF, it had to be used in Live View. He >> found that one of those clip-on turret viewfinders didn't really solve the >> problem. I looked for a S/H K-01 body in SA a couple of years ago but found >> they were asking more than a K5! >> Alan C >> On 15-Nov-20 04:30 AM, Rick Womer wrote: >>> I suspect that the decision to concentrate on DSLRs was driven by scarcity >>> of capital, not scarcity of desire to make a mirrorless body. >>> > > > -- > 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.
