Somehow missed this thread, but just read the interview. This quote is interesting to me: "If you look purely at what we're hearing from customers, there's a lot of demand for longer focal lengths. Something like 300mm f/2.8, something like that. As far as what's on the road map, it's not something that I'm able to share."
He's acknowledging customer demand, and even names a focal length and aperture combination but then says that he's "not able to share" what is on the road map. Also, everything that he says for the 645 here could also be said for a Pentax full frame camera: "I think that was our advantage with the 645, that there were a lot of photographers who were film 645 shooters, had the lenses, and we maintained that compatibility. Then there's a lot of lenses available on the secondary market because of the popularity of the older camera, of the film version of the camera. I think that is definitely a big part of the strategy, is those existing owners of those lenses. As far as the 25mm is concerned, the indication is that it will be available, I believe, in March." Finally, when he says: "I'm cautiously optimistic, especially for certain categories like DSLRs, like the water-proof cameras, things such as that where they've still--I don't want to say they're growing tremendously, but they are still growing." It seems like all of this hand-wringing (in the EVIL rumors thread) about Pentax DSLR development and production going away are a bit of an over-reaction. He all but admits earlier in the interview that a K-r replacement is in the pipeline (that he can't confirm). I'm pretty sure the same can be said for the K-5. Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
