Off Topic: Pentax has officially ended production on all of their DSLRs

[Snapshot]

This might be of interest to some of you. Ricoh has just shut down production on all of their Pentax DSLRs. As someone who has used Pentax for 40+ years, this makes me sad.

Ricoh says they're developing a "new concept" of DSLRs based on the K-Mount, but nobody quite knows what that is. They have previously said they are committed to DSLR over mirrorless.

Switching to Sony two years ago was a good move on my part.

 

[iamdlewis]

After the A9 was release I was convinced that everything was going to need to move to mirrorless as the feature set of the A9 was just too impressive for a relatively young technology compared to the DSLR. When Pentax said that they were not going to move to mirrorless I figured that was them announcing their funeral. Sad to lose historic names in industries.