I'm late to this. but I don't see how the K-? stripped down full frame
could lose any features that would make it less expensive. Most of the
fluff is in the software, which would not decrease unit costs for Ricoh
to build. Any actual electronic or mechanical changes such as a smaller
buffer, or fewer external controls, etc. would probably cost a small
manufacture, (by units sold, Ricoh is after all a big company), more
than they would save by shaving off those features, and make the camera
as useful as the newish Sigma mirroless bodies.
Ricoh Imaging seems to have limited capacity to manufacture different
lines of cameras, (just like Pentax), so a dumbed down K-1 seems unlikely.
However if they managed to put a 24x36mm sensor into a K-3 style and
sized body I'd certainly be interested. I just don't expect it to happen.
What I actually expect is if there is an intermediate between the K-P
and the K-1 will be a K-P without built in flash but with wifi and gps
built in, and the same shooting specifications. That doesn't seem to
be that hard as it's just swaping out a pop up flash for a different
module. Almost the same cost to manufacture with a higher profit margin.
On 1/26/2017 12:17 PM, postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
P. J. Alling wrote:
The fact that it's the replacement for the K-3 series is just a bit
disappointing, actually that's an understatement, but I expected it
probably was...
The KP is a thousand dollars and the K-1 is two grand. Given that a
camera in between tham would be around $1500 I'd guess it will be a
stripped-down full-frame rather than a up-spec APS-C.
So there will likely be ho higher-spec APS-C camera.
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