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The long, difficult road to Pentax full-frame - Pentax’s road to full-frame has been long, winding and...
DPreviewThe long, difficult road to Pentax full-frame - Pentax’s road to full-frame has been long, winding and not without a few wrong turns. But it could all have been so different. Way back in 2000, when the 21st Century was just beginning to find its feet and photography journalists were starting to get used to putting a ‘D’ into ‘SLR’, Pentax announced that it was making a full-frame (D)SLR. Had it shipped, that camera - which was developed out of the company's then-flagship film model the MZ-...
| The long, difficult road to Pentax full-frame The new Pentax K-1 has been long awaited by Pentax users past and present, but the road to its creation has been long, winding and not without some wrong turns. In this article, DPReview editor and old (ish) fart Barnaby Britton turns back the clock and looks at what went wrong with Pentax's original, canceled full-frame DSLR, and how the company came through two buy-outs and several changes of strategy to end up with the K-1. Read more |
