On the bright side that does show a degree of realism and awareness that frankly has been missing from past interviews.

I always viewed this as Mirrorless and DSLRs with mechanical shutters and interchangeable lenses have more in common than they have differences. We're fundamentally just talking about a viewfinder prism difference between the two concepts. EVF's have come a very long way and they can gain up in darker areas where an optical only viewfinder is less useful, and they can show focus peaking / highlights blown etc right in the viewfinder, and play back the image in the viewfinder etc.

I'd still prefer optical anyday, but have to get real here that mirrorless and evf's are getting all of the development focus and sales now. Of all the manufacturers, I always thought Pentax had the rights to some of the nicest looking 'retro' SLR cameras, and as such I was surprised nothing along these lines was ever released. Holding a 'real' SLR is a tactile experience, with cold heavy metal and sharp angular corners, mixed with the smell of leather cases too. No one has really recreated that too well, with just silver plastic in use mostly. Fuji, Olympus and Nikon have each had a go, but they've missed the mark for me personally, with Fuji coming closest.

I was disappointed though to take from this interview that there's no real plans for any new DSLR soon. It feels like some personal interest projects have made it through, like the K-1 and the K-3 iii, but they may be end of the line type models? That's horrible to think about really.

Have been wondering about these myself lately.

Welcome all the way from New Zealand!

love that!

Oh wow, thanks for the info.

Out of interest, what was difficult on the astro work?

Have been wondering what's coming in the K-1 space, to align with K-3 iii type focussing etc.

On another note I'm surprised there isn't a large number of K-3 iii's coming up for sale second hand now.
Feel not many were sold and people like them so much they're not letting them go

Good stuff mate. I'm up in Palmerston North and it was epic here.
Started slow but when I checked later it was very very visible to the naked eye.
Cellphone only that night and was basically too bright for the sensor there was so much light from it in the sensor range.
The next night was fully clouded over, such as these things go.

Very nice!!

I'd be interested to shave a 1/4 off the top and left hand side to bring the attention closer in and clone out that annoying blade of lighter coloured grass at the bottom
I like the colour shot as well, but also something dreamy about the last B&W one too.