Aside from Minolta users, no one cared, because it was a Minolta. The same thing would be true for a "flagship" Pentax. Pentax will never recover the R&D costs, let alone make a profit, on a hot snot film SLR. The whole film SLR market is shrinking due to digital. It will go from single digit to double digit negative growth as the DSLRs get better and cheaper. The window of opportunity for new world class (as opposed to boutique class) SLRs closed 4 years ago. Anyone trying to make a case for Pentax coming out with a new high end body and line of lenses is a strong candidate for psychotropic drugs.
From: Pål Jensen But for Minolta theirs never was a flagship. It was just a boosted up mid-line model without much, or any, technology or feature not available elsewhere in the line-up. Hence, hardly anyone noticed. However, features like IS and USM may be developed for a flagship but lower end models will take advantage of it as well. Theres no doubt that if IS and USM can be used with the MZ-S it's sales will increase as well.
