Pentax fails completely with video options. Everyone is buying canon, sony, panasonic because they need to shoot video and stills with one system.
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020, 08:51 Sandy Harris, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:59 AM John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think the DSLR/SLR camera market is dying ... > > Yes. > > > ... what product does Pentax (Ricoh) need to come up with to spark a NEW > industry? > > > > I don't think a new film camera is going to be that product. > > Agreed. > > > I don't think mirrorless is that product. > > I do. As I see it, mirrorless will replace (D)SLRs much as SLRs > replaced rangefinders some decades back. Of course, just as there are > people using rangefinders today & getting fine pictures with them, > there will no doubt be diehards using DSLRs in 2080. > > It would be hard for Pentax to compete in the part of the mirrorless > market that most obviously has a future, full-frame. Canon & Nikon are > well established, & the L-mount Alliance (Panasonic, Leica & Sigma) > will be a player. Maybe, though. Pentax had the only mirrorless so far > without a new lens mount; the K-01 took standard K-mount lenses, a > huge advantage both to the shooter & to the manufacturer. It failed to > sell, I think mainly because it lacked a viewfinder. Would a K-02 with > a full-frame sensor & a viewfinder sell? Would it offer any real > advantage over current Pentax models? (I doubt it) > > With the camera market shrinking, Nikon & Canon are likely to put most > of their resources (design, manufacture & advertising) into their new > mirrorless lines. Could Pentax carve out a niche as the best DSLR > left? They already are IMHO. > > > > > > On 7/13/2020 16:18:45, Henk Terhell wrote: > > > In my opinion an unrealistic suggestion on fstoppers: > > > > > > > https://fstoppers.com/film/plea-pentax-go-back-making-what-you-were-great-499270 > > > > > > Henk > > > > > > > > > -- > > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
