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I'm one who will be happy enough for 24mp, but who am I to determine what is being chosen.
So not much of a choice but to buy what is offered.
For me as an enthusiast who prints up to A3+, 42mp is overkill though I can see the potential of downsampling for cleaner looking files and perhaps the ability to crop for new photo angles/framing while having enough mp to still print big.
The comment on not having enough lenses is certainly not true.
Pentax certainly has more FF lenses right off than Sony did for A7 at launch or even Fuji X for the aps-c at launch.
Very quick list :
FA31/1.8 ltd
FA43/1.9 ltd
FA77/1.8 ltd
DFA WR 100/2.8 macro
FA35/2
FA50/1.4
DA*200/2.8
DA*300/4
DA*60-250
DA560
DA70-200/2.8
DA150-450
Many listed are nice and smallish, which is a unique point with Pentax stuff.
Arguable list (which have been tested on film or MILC like A7/r with some IQ loss wide open on the corners)
DA35/2.4
DA50/1.8
DA70 ltd
DA*55/1.4 (very nice on A7, I've seen the o/p myself; at least in the portrait context)
So what is obviously missing are the wides and ultra wides.
28mm and wide.
I'd also rather buy new WA and UWA than press old ones into service anyway given the improvements on them nowadays over legacy options.
The Pentax roadmap indicates a wide fast zoom, so it seems it will have to be released near the launch of the FF to cover up the lens gap for a UWA.
Of course there is the Samyang 14/2.8 too, which is no slouch at a cheap price.
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