[dave9t5]

Honestly I think that the Pentax DSLRs are great. Easily as good as the rest of the DSLR gang.

 

But in the last few years they didn't really come up with something exciting on the lens side.

People are simply getting used to evolution and we haven't seen any substantial updates other than the rather cosmetic updates of their kit zooms and the HD coating (which is nothing really).

And as mentioned - what is their lighthouse product ? What outshines the others ? Their pancake story has been eaten away by the mirrorless gang years ago thus their traditional argument (compact size/low weight) is lo longer valid. 

Don't misunderstand me - similar arguments apply to Sony Alpha DSLRs. 

The market simply doesn't understand anymore why Pentax/Sony DSLRs are needed which is also why they are both disappearing from stores.

Again - it is a very good system - but Nikon and Canon are excellent DSLR systems. Thus Pentax needs to make us WOW.

 

Sorry for not being clearer, I was talking only about the Sony E-mount mirrorless APS-...not the Sony dSLR (I can't keep the names straight in Sony anymore).   The have some of the most interesting bodies, but few (decent) lenses for them.   Pentax has the (mostly) complete lines of lenses, but gets criticized for being boring.  It's just funny to contrast the arguments against them.