>>4097050It is, professionally, dead. Very few quality full frame lenses. lots of aberration and focus breathing problems across their lineup. they are very slow to fix them. Even on the primes. I can't remember a single pentax lens without noticeable focus breathing.
pentax makes a good full frame camera if you are into astro, lanscape, artsy stuff, and are shooting on your own time and can stand anywhere you want, ok, but if you are a professional who needs GOOD zooms and to meet client needs and restrictions or work in a studio environment pentax is not in the equation, or you will be swapping lenses a lot, and for their overall quality their lenses are frankly overpriced by a factor of 1.5 to 3, which is likely why so many pentax users are still buying old FA series lenses (why buy the D FA 100mm macro? the FA 100mm macro was the same lens for half price without weather sealing until literally this month, that's why).
There is a reason the K-1, despite being a stellar camera with more bells and whistles than it needs, can be bought for $800 while a sony A7III is about the same price despite fewer megapickels and being a little more bare bones with worse IBIS and weather sealing. It is because the sony, with sony's lens ecosystem, can actually propel a normal photography career forward, and the K-1 is for an ansel adams larp. They're sticking with DSLRs because they're going for the artsy amateurs/casuals, the fuji approach. And there is really nothing to complain about in sony land. Nikon hates grey market, canon is slow to the finish line and hates third party lenses, sony - is perfect, people bitch about the colors but believe it or not the much loved K-1 and sony A7III have the same exact colors.
