RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: Yet Another Recent Rumour from Japan: K-3/3s April, 645DII June

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Yet Another Recent Rumour from Japan: K-3/3s April, 645DII June

Read this:-

http://bbs.kakaku.com/bbs/K0000416049/SortID=15794099/
(in Japanese)

This rumour is actually a few weeks earlier than what Photo Rumors told us about five new Pentax/Ricoh cameras are to come just on the day before. The Japanese OP seems to know something. Btw, it is said that the K-3/3s is an APS-C body with 24MP pixel count, just! >:-|

Edit: Thanks to "phoenix15" for his/her reply in the Comments section (the 1st one), we have another latest post found at the kakaku forum by the same OP:-

http://bbs.kakaku.com/bbs/-/SortID=15883682/
(in Japanese)

It is told that a lower entry level DSLR model than the K-30 with a 16MP sensor (APS-C of course) will be marketed also, and that the K-3/3s will replace the K-5II/IIs.

So, the above have already made up the four new Pentax cameras that will appear, whilst the remaining new camera I guess would be in the Ricoh brand name.

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phoenix15 · 626 weeks ago

Did you read all the comments ? Your blog was also mentioned there :)
I try to check the comment or thread he made, check here: http://bbs.kakaku.com/bbs/-/SortID=15883682/#tab

From the same person, but more earlier then the link you gave: Only Two APS-C, the higher than K-5, and lower than K-30. So no FF this moment ?

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RiceHigh 110p · 626 weeks ago

This is a different thread that is newer by the same poster. Btw, I can't find that my Blog link is being quoted anywhere in the thread. Will update post anyway shortly for the additional rumour about the entry level body. Thanks.

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phoenix15 · 626 weeks ago

Number 13 comment from above (the date was: 2013/02/21 09:23), only quoted without the link to your blog.

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Tomasz Worek · 626 weeks ago

Hopefully these bodies are not announced on 1st of April :)

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frank · 626 weeks ago

Yes another APS-C body seems to be a logical thing. Since the K-5II was 'just' a minor upgrade. I think the K-3 was already planned for photokina but there were delays and now we will have a complete new design.
The FF body will be later i think. They will need to develop some FF zoom lenses and stuff, or at least order the development to a third brand company and label them with pentax. A FF body is one step, but you need a whole system...

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badsykes · 626 weeks ago

How many people actually will afford FF to be profitable...The market share of pentax is small..The people that will buy Pentax FF will be even smaller...The FF Nikon D600 got 222 reviews on Bhphotovideo shop but the K5 IIs received only 5..I know i am not comparing apples to apples but still it shows the very low share...

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Moritz Schwertner · 626 weeks ago

Agreed. Many People talk, few of them really ever purchase something that they've talked about on the internet. Judging from all the Car-Forums I know, pretty much anyone on the Planet must own either an AUDI, a Porsche or an BMW. And not the small ones of course. Just their specific Supercars.

I do still think that Pentax is on the right track with their (somehow sparse) belief in APS-C at this time. Unless Full Frame Sensors get super cheap, that an entry level model is possible at 600€ / $, there is just no point in a real Pentax Full Frame.

The Market share is just too tiny to be profitable, the lens segment is sparse at best (no decently fast and fast zooms for the bigger sensor for example) and the whole eco-system to compete with the big boys is just not there. Look at Sony as an example. They are trying so hard to fetch up with them, and the A850 was a real deal breaker at the time, but they still seem to be loosing ground.

I know a Full Frame Pentax would be nice, I know I would've bought one the very second they announced it, but that was a year ago. Now I own a Canon 5D Series Body and several Lenses, and although I sometimes miss the layout and the in-body SR, I don't really miss the agony / wish for something bigger.

One a side note: Imagine what a high resolution Full Frame would do to the already slow sales of the 645D? That would probably kill the entire line!

Greetings from Germany,

Moritz Schwertner
// www.moritzschwertner.de

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badsykes · 626 weeks ago

Nice site Moritz .. You are a pro photographer..I am amateur ..
Anyway for me the new from k-3 24mpix is too overkill..The K5 iis is the limit for me..16 mpix without low pass filter is nice...I remember my K-x looked sharper than the K-5 and people told me that k-x a weaker filter..Even with another K-x i will still be pleased if it didn't had problems with autofocus on sigma lenses and had WR..WR is what made me jump to K-5 ...The peace of mind is there..The adventure is there..When it begins to rain others put the cameras in bags and i still can shoot ..The new "K-x" is K-30 that seems to fit all my points ... Pretty late now...Let's see what pentax will bring to the table...

Greetings from Romania btw ... If you need photos for your multicultural project maybe i can assist ....

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Snappertim · 626 weeks ago

The best line up would be k3000 x1 at the bottom of the range k3 x2 (s and non s) at top of APSC AND K1 x2 full frame (s and non s), this set up would give Pentax a camera at every piont fine tuning and up grade gradualy from then on.