New FF pentax lenses and....DSLR

[Gooberlx2]

I know there aren't many pentaxians here, but still...

Pentax Full Frame DSLR Officially Announced:
http://www.pentaxforums.com/article...full-frame-officially-coming-cpplus-2015.html

D-FA* 70-200mm and D-FA 150-450mm Announced:
http://www.pentaxforums.com/article...0mm-d-fa-150-450mm-tele-lenses-announced.html

Personally, I'm plenty happy with my K3, and if anything might some day look into smaller/mirrorless options for the sake of reducing weight for backpacking/camping. Regardless, been a long time coming for Pentax shooters that have wanted to go full frame.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I think this is great - more choices are never a bad thing. What do you prefer about the Pentax platform?

 

[Belegost]

I'm not sure what advantage there is in releasing a FF DSLR at this point, it's pretty clear that things are going to be shifting to mirrorless in the near future.

I would have invested the engineering time into high-end FF mirrorless (sony a7 competitor) and gotten a head start against Canon and Nikon in a new area instead of trying to compete against them in the FF DSLR category.

 

[Gooberlx2]

What do you prefer about the Pentax platform?

All the colors.....



But seriously, for me, value for money spent. In particular the weather sealing.

 

[Berliner]

In my opinion Pentax is much too late to this party. Everyone who wanted full frame has had and still has too many other, probably better (lens selection, ...) options.

Even if I had gone Pentax when I started, I would not consider their 35mm option now, because I'd be much too invested in crop lenses.

However, it's great that they "got there" and I'm interested in seeing what the prices will do.