Samsung here forever?

Do you think Samsung will be around in 10yrs to come? Also do you think they will bring their version of the K7 out?

Samsung are a huge company and I'm sure they will be around in 10 years. You probably meant more in a photographic sense though. Samsung have quite a variety of digital cameras on offer apart from the Pentax made ones so i doubt there is much to fear.

As regards the K7 I wouldn't be surprised to see a Samsung version, but who knows...

Yeah photographically i meant.

I just dont want to invest in accessories and then hear they are stopping SLR's

I read in a magazine a while back that they had no intention whatsoever of creating their own SLR. They said they were happy to work in partnership with Pentax

I thought they were going to take another direction then Pentax.
The hybrird camera announced by Samsung is such example.
I don't see a Pentax version coming from that one but I belive that if the hybrid is an succses that samsung will focus on that instead of DSLR.

Thats what i read yeah. Well thats a bummer for people who have spent money on the Samsung SLR's then

Not at all as they can use all the Pentax accessories, with the exception perhaps of the battery grip.

They have publicly said that they will be continuing the GX range and that they were talking to pentax as to how to proceed.

johnriley,

Are you perhaps the most helpful person on the internet. Every post i read of yours onhere and other forums are all non judgemental and to the point.

Thank you for that!

Although identical to the K20D on the outside, inside the Samsung has used it's own software.
The test I viewed scored it lower than the Pentax by 1%.
Food for thought.

regards
Chris

I do believe that Samsung made the sensor for the K-7 for Pentax so hopefully yes they will be around for a while yet.

Samsung are a volume business. As long as there is sufficient volume and they make the right kind of money and it is not in conflict with their strategy then I see no reason why they would stop selling Pentax based cameras.

However, in real terms what we are really buying into is a culture and lenses with the Pentax mount. In some respects (and please forgive me if I offend) Digital bodies will come and go relatively quickly in our lifetimes but lenses tend to hang around a lot longer - unless you drop them from a great height! My lens collection is worth far more than my K20Ds.

Agreed, the lenses go from body to body. Some of my lenses were bought when I had the *istDS and are still fine today.

According to this:

link

there will be a GX30.

Could it possibly be related to the K7:

GX30 = K7

My GX20 feels 'chunkier' in design than my K10D so hopefully the GX30 will be 'chunker' than the K7. I'm sure that's just wishful thinking though ....

Cloudhunter - your sign in your signature is claiming I'm using Firefox I'm on IE7!

Same here but I'm using Opera 10 and also not really windows XP... they never get my version right

When is the Samsung Hybrid coming btw?

Also Samsung new phone here.


12-megapixelcamera with 3x optical zoom.
It looks like a decent camera...