I suspect it will spec out very similar to the new nikon d600 but with weather sealing and possibly a software/hardware hybrid IS system... for a similar price.

means the k5II's vs k30 vs k-01 debate is settled for me... I'll either grab a used k5 or a new k-01 to tide me over for next year...

I find the goth community here in my city to be a really nice bunch of people.
of several events I've shot for them, and several magazines that have published my work with them... I must say this... I've had worse experiances with trouble makers at wedding socials than goth events (the last one they called it thier Anti-social) lol!

Sony still wants to take over the photography world.... interesting.... any other small brands they need to buy up?
Ricoh? Pentax? lol!
tells you there's a market for the smaller cameras. Hope Pentax get's it's mirrorless models ramped up for serious competition... whatI'd give for a Panasonic g3 crossed with a Pentax k-01 hybrid baby......

you doing this in camera or in post? i've tried it a few times with video in camera on the kr.... nice effect when you get it right... saves post production time for sure.

if it sells why not..
truthfully Sony was too f'n greedy and tried to copyright/trademark and sue thier way into a cornering of the market that reeks of antitrust... and they paid for it with consumer backlash... that is why beta (which was the better format) lost.

pentax would be better served having a "Just try it" loaner program through large photo retailers if they want to sell more cameras...

I would hope that in this day of electronics that a simple hybrid ring could be made... drop the mechanical linkages, but leave the aperture ring as an electronic control for aperture... bring out a lens that has the classic look and feel of an aperture ring.
of course that would only work on digital bodies.....
but having had the k10 slip off the right aperture (by bumping the edials) by accident durin event shoots with studio lights, there is something reasuring about the old aperture ring...

I think Pentax needs to develop "cinema" lenses, for the k-01 and come out with a k-01 with 4k video and live, raw hdmi out...

they better get new products out soon...
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hmmmn.... tie it to a balloon or parachute or kite...

I think Ricoh can help with the marketing....
the Pentax k-30, optio wr and camera bag offering through Costco in north america was an awesome bundle at an unbelievable price. too bad it was online only... if it had been in the stores as well, people could pick up the pentax and hold it..feel it, and look through the viewfinder, and they'd know it was better than anything else in that price range!
they are getting there!