What do you think

As a photographic instrument the camera no doubt delivers. It might not be my idea of an ergonomic dream camera but that doesn't mean it isn't useful.

Useful doesn't always mean saleable and that's the key issue here - Pentax Ricoh have canned the product because of poor sales, not because it won't take pretty pictures.

When it was introduced I had a hard time believing the camera would appeal to folks outside Pentax's base of existing K mount lens users. Maybe they thought K mount compatibility was enough of a value proposition.

Apparently not.