>>4387894It's a hipster brand. Nothing more. Pentax is borderline out of business and no longer improving. In fact, if their newer FF lens and body lineup says anything, they have gotten significantly worse. The K1 had reliability issues with the meter glitching out and part of the mode dial falling apart internally, and the K1-II forces raw noise reduction for every photo that reduces its low light shadow pushing ability (sony does something similar if you enable shading correction in camera but at least you can turn it off).
The only thing they do that nikon does not is put weather sealing on their cheapest aps-c junk. Instead their cheapest trash has aperture failures. Yes, I know they have IBIS. They don't have a native tilt shift lens and OIS lenses are as effective as pentax's third rate IBIS. K mount can't adapt SHIT either. The autofocus is notoriously slow and a bit inaccurate. For a photographer these are overpriced, oversized cameras with significantly reduced utility unless you already own a mountain of K mount lenses.
So why is it a hipster brand? Because the pentax k-1000 was the default camera for most photography school students so hipsters buy a pentax to feel like they are more of a real artist than just another "camera guy". So they just have to hate other brands (often irrationally) to cope after spending a boatload on a k3-iii and a bunch of mirrorless priced lenses with SLR performance.
If you don't hate yourself get an a7c and weather sealed tamron glass. It's as durable as any pentax, if not more because there is less to fail.
