did you say never?
when you drive away a customer that has been loyal for over thirty years you're making a mistake.

Pentax video camera

here's the deal... Pentax ignores video.. so I have six SONY cameras for video BUT four awesome pentax lenses I don't have becuase I spent the money on SONY products..
that is the PAST...
in a month I'm dropping over four grand on some newer video gear to replace broken and obsolete SONY gear..
I'm ordering a BlackMagic Designs micro cinema cam, a panasonic micro 4/3's body, two lenses, and an external monitor and accessories to upgrade my video services for an upcoming project... total cost? just a lil
more than the cost of the Pentax k-1 and 70-200 I will NOT be buying, but COULD have bought IF the k-1 had decent video specs like it's Nikon counterpart!!!
eventually I'm going to leave Pentax I can't afford to keep up multiple systems and buying redundant lenses!

images from my k3 recently got published in Russia and the uk, but I can't justify buying more pentax at this time.
let's be honest here I HATE SONY. I hate that they gouge their own customers on proprietary batteries and accessories between their OWN cameras and this PREVENTS a user from building a decent system without having to buy multiple batteries and lenses for EACH body for different uses.. the switch to BMD means micro 4/3's AND eventually canon batteries and metabones 4/3 to canon lenses and Canon cinema lenses for the ursa system and up... so if all my new lenses and video cameras are going to be Canon... guess what d-slrs I'll have to buy later on if I continue to offer video and still imaging services?
Canon and Panasonic! not pentax!
Pentax is FORCING me to leave the brand! and I have been shooting pentax for thirty years!
I'm a little pissed that they can't put decent video specs into ONE model to reward me for my loyalty and allow me to use all the existing lenses and gear I own to shoot some decent video for filmmaking projects! the go-pro is a $450.00 camera with decent pro video specs, surely pentax can do something to reward me for my two k-1ooo's, me, mx me super, mz5, mz5n, ds2, kx, 2 k10's, kr, and two k3's plus dozens of lenses batteries, accessories flash units, ring flashes and other gear I bought over the years!

the threads purpose was to discus the camera review and one of the issues is video.
I didn't write to give an opinion on the review, but to discuss one of the camera's shortcomings which is mentioned in the review.

also, the reason I shoot pentax today was becuase in the 80's the yearbook and photography club in my old highschool had Pentax k1000's (the volkswagen bug of cameras) for students to learn on, and today... every kid in highschool and post secondary who is learning film making and photography is buying Canon and Nikon.
Pentax isn't thinking, niche market nor their roots in northamerica they are only paying attention to core users in japan, and maybe some of you guys on this forum... not the rest of us and the market opportunities to grow the brand back to where it once was..

pentax is known for releasing odd, eccentric one off models anyways.
It would not kill the company and might even help to simply release a "V" or "Cinema" version of k70 and k1 just to shut me up.

I'm Director of Photography on a tv series set to air in Africa and hopefully soon in canada and we shot an entire season with three Canons, one was the pro video C-100 and a FF d-slr and a aps model.

Was a shame.. the opening credits shots here in canada were shot on the K3 in 4k timelapse mode on a robotic slider.
for the rest of the project my k3 collected dust.. meanwhile... other people kept asking my cameraman on that project what camera he was using, because they wanted to buy or hire for their projects..
Canon sold more than a few d6, d60 and C-100 models to the film making community....
any sale you don't make, your competitors will...

buzz right now in the film community is on the Hassie medium format mirrorless... film makers are all clamouring to find out if the video is going to be usable on a pro level....
TV shows are using go-pro's with Q sized sensors and bitching they can't swap lenses...
there's a SMALL market for pro video with ALL the sensor sizes pentax makes BUT..
Pentax isn't really pushing to make inroads into those markets and it's too bad...
MANY would be camera buyers look to see what the pros use when deciding what prosumer or entry level camera system to buy into.
sales equals market share, market share equals R&D money and that translates into better future models.

those who understand the concepts actually want to see a 645 sized sensor putting out video with a 70mm film look....
remember.. there are those who ALSO believe "why would anybody care about sensor size and waste money on a D-slr... my iPhones takes great pictures!" and people in these pentax forums sound a lot like THOSE guys when the subject switches to video ...

remember all the SDM issues pentax had? releasing this to the mid tier products first actually makes sense... once the trust is there demand will rise then (pure speculation coming up) if I were pentax, I'd release WR, HD, PLM (throw the rest of the alphabet here) versions of it's famous LTD PRIMES in full frame...

people would line up and or kill for the
WR HD PLM ABC DEF GHI JKLMNO ? QRS TUV WXY Z 31 MM LTD PRIME.

(where's the P? I think it's running down my leg).

weight and balance also affect stability, and with telephotos, the trade off is OFTEN worth it since most people use telephotos in decent light and stop it down to get maximum dof and sharpness anyways....

either that or there's a hardware issue we don't know about?
also possible there's an order of priority here and new firmware for older models is coming soon? one can hope that the k-3 isn't so far in the past that it gets ignored, but seriously, how many k-3 owners likely to spring for the "new" 55-300 when we don't have the video specs to use it vs the older 55-300's which we can get for a song and a dance used or old stock?
I kinda understand where they're going logic wise, but Ricoh should know some of us k-3 owners might spring for the new k-70 BECAUSE WE WANT the better video and if we wind up buying a new lens we'd like to be able to use it on BOTH bodies anyways... I notice there's no headphone jack here..can't help but wonder if there's another higher end video model coming out soon?

weird decision to say it works on the k3-II but not the k-3.... just a software issue or hardware? I use my k-3 for lots of video and keep hoping for a serious video upgrade, and with a hole in my lens selection for video this lens would likely have been worth buying in the mean time..