Pentax FF DSLR - confirmed

Hopefully Pentax will follow through on the FF project but I am as likely to buy one as I am to buy the lovely 645D. I am not a professional photographer so can't justify the expense. It's simply unaffordable on my salary with my outgoings.

Does this bother me? Well, actually it doesn't. I have a fantastic APS-C (K-5)which massively exceeds my amateur needs, and I gave it a new lease of life with a recently aquired lens which takes it even further beyond my limitations(DA 18-135). The point is that I am having a fantastic time with this setup and my many old Pentax lenses.

Any improvement I might want can be met by better glass. Perhaps in the years ahead I will treat myself to a limited prime or a star lens. I am thinking that there is, for me, plenty of potential already in production. This can take my photographic aspirations as far as I could realistically want. Even if I could afford the likely cost of a FF Pentax, I suspect that the quality of my photography would not be massively improved - I am the limited not by technology, but by my creative ability. Fortunatley, this can be significantly bettered through experience and learning, and at no further cost to my bank balance.

I enjoy the Pentaxes I already have; and I do remind myself that most photographers, even those with FF cameras, are not as fortunate as us!

Thanks for trying to bring back some common sense. I didn't find much in that interview at all. IMO he was just saying what he had to say in light of the PK'12 buzz of the 6D, D600 & RX1. If you want to present an optimistic business, you would be expected to be, responding and taking advantage of this probable new 'DSLR-lite' market.

2014+?

Well, I would like to see a FF. It is annoying for me, to need to multiply all the focal length of my lenses by 1.5.
This made my widest lens not so wide anymore.
Also, when using a 35mm lens as an equivalent 50mm lens,is there any difference between the curvature of field of the 35mm lens, compared to the 50mm lens on a FF?

Regards, Horst

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I hope the pentax ff is a mirrorless with evf...

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

I was looking at a Panasonic G3 a few weeks ago and when I put my eye to the EVF I put the camera straight down on the shop counter.....the day all cameras go EVF is the day I stop buying any cameras.

See:

http://cameraergonomics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/micro-43-shutter-shock-revisited-...

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My partner currently shoots with a fuji HS10... She almost never uses the EVF but shoots almost exclusively in liveview...

I personally have only started using liveview recently (and only when camera is mounted to tripod) and couldn't live without a viewfinder... But the idea of a 'lectric one is pretty revolting tbh...

I want to see what's 'there' not what a circuit board 'thinks' is there... Mirrors are important to the way I want to shoot...

Liveview however is also very useful... When using an ND the other day I couldn't have got the shot without it...

Back on topic please, the thread is about a proposed Pentax FF DSLR...