Full Frame - Here we go again

I think Facebook members do have a right to start a poll if they want to. After all, somebody could just as well be outraged if they thought is was unfair that they had to join PU to vote in one of our polls...

Or are we missing the point?

Looks like it came out of the Pentax museum to me and why have it pictured with an *istD?

The screen on the back looks very small and not up to the resolution of the current one on the K-5.

My theory is that these are photographs of an earlier attempt that never made it.

Yep it's in the Asahi Pentax headquarters, and was shot by someone testing the Pentax Q (the first samples published on the web).

Of course the screen is small and not up to the resolution of the K5! This is the first DSLR Pentax ever developed, back in 2001.

The camera was based on the MZ-S, way back in the early days of DSLRs. Pentax cancelled the camera, citing that it would be too expensive for the target market. But another camera developed by Contax, using the same sensor, was torn apart by reviewers. Perhaps Pentax were wise to cancel the project to avoid damaging their brand! Subsequently of course they developed a camera based on the *ist, the *istD.