Well said, Bill! Sounds good for Pentax.
Alan C
On 16-Nov-20 06:41 PM, Bill 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.
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