I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that I was JOKING when I said the reason for the specification similarity between the K5 and the rumor-camera-du-jour (mirrorless in this instance) was that the K5 was being obsoleted.
Shoulda used a smiley ;-) Steven Desjardins wrote: >It makes sense to go mirrorless for the low end, where cost really >matters. That doesn't mean there won't be a K5 replacement. > >On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:15 PM, P. J. Alling ><webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It was 2006 everything was but ugly. >> >> On 1/20/2012 8:39 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >>> >>> Well, I think that's a butt ugly camera. Cheers, Christine :-) >>> >>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Steven Desjardins<drd1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> You have to do better than that, Christine. To which depressing thing >>>> are you referring? ;-) >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Christine Aguila<christ...@caguila.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Well that's depressing. >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Steven Desjardins<drd1...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Let's hope for this one: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/i-hope-marc-newson-can-make-a-better-pentax-k-design-than-that-one/ >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Christine >>>>>> Aguila<christ...@caguila.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I guess I agree with Paul, but I have to say it would break my heart >>>>>>> to see the K5 to go away with no upgrade to follow. I'd probably use my >>>>>>> Pentax gear until I couldn't any more, then switch. Cheers, Christine >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Paul Stenquist<pnstenqu...@comcast.net> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Tom C wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Assuming I had a K-5, what would induce me to buy a mirrorless >>>>>>>>>> system >>>>>>>>>> that is essentially in all other respects, a K-5? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The K5 being discontinued? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If no DSLR upgrade were introduced, that would induce me to sell my >>>>>>>> gear and go to Nikon. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
