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Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems
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(09-08-2019, 12:17 AM)Klaus Wrote: Well, Pentax is the last "major" manufacturer sticking solely to DSLRs - so yes - they are the last of the mohicans.

TO be fair, they have tried mirrorless, not once, but TWICE! Pentax Q (Compact-camera sensor with interchangeable lens) and the Pentax K-01 (DSLR-mount without the mirror), which led the rest of us to ask: why?

Frankly, they release 1-2 lens a year nowadays (mostly refreshed versions or rebadged Tamron lenses for their FF camera), their last bodies were released in 2018 (FF) and 2017 (APS-C). We are very far from the early 2010s, when Pentax was releasing affordable, and distinct, APS-C bodies with IBIS, real pentaprisms and weather sealing even in their kit lenses... and when you could see them displayed in stores.

It's over for them, at least their DSLR mount (they still have a few interesting compact cameras, usually branded Ricoh nowadays). They just don't want to say it.

Oh man, it's their 100th anniversary this year!
  


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Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by Klaus - 09-07-2019, 09:03 AM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by Rover - 09-07-2019, 09:52 AM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by JJ_SO - 09-07-2019, 02:52 PM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by Klaus - 09-08-2019, 12:17 AM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by Spinifex - 09-11-2019, 12:53 PM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by davidmanze - 09-12-2019, 09:58 AM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by JJ_SO - 09-12-2019, 11:03 AM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by Klaus - 09-12-2019, 11:50 AM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by Klaus - 09-12-2019, 01:06 PM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by davidmanze - 09-13-2019, 06:05 AM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by JJ_SO - 09-13-2019, 02:08 PM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by davidmanze - 09-15-2019, 12:28 PM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by JJ_SO - 09-15-2019, 12:56 PM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by Klaus - 09-14-2019, 12:19 AM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by JJ_SO - 09-14-2019, 08:17 AM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by Klaus - 09-17-2019, 11:30 AM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by Klaus - 09-18-2019, 09:05 AM
RE: Sigma abandoning Pentax K it seems - by davidmanze - 09-19-2019, 04:56 AM

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