Pentax Film Project

ogl wrote:

zakaria wrote:

ogl wrote:

zakaria wrote:

It is very smart. Please Pentax think about releasing manual focus lenses also at good price.

This project i asked for 3 years ago.

very silly move

It is a stone thrown by Ricoh to shake the stagnant waters. Pentax is unfortunately absent from news sites. This news restores the light to this ancient name, which has dimmed the light. There is a shortage of semiconductor supplies. Also, Pentax benefits from its cameras little because most of its components are imported from a third party. Returning to the movie may be a shocking step, but what is the problem with that, as it is just a project.

Nikon sold approx. 270 film cameras per every year (for last 6 years of sales) before stopped the production of F6 in 2020. Easy to find in web.

270 pcs. in whole world !!!!

And that's the thing, There were more than 270 people taking up film photography each year, but they would not spend $2500 on an F6.
No one knows the world Market in $1000+ film SLRs, because there hasn't been one for a couple of years, but it looks like like before that it was hundreds. Even if Pentax sells a couple of thousand a year, it doesn't pay for much in the way of R&D.  You can make your own guess about what the "factory gate" price of the camera would be, what the cost of making it would be and how much each camera sold would pay back towards its development, and divide that into what it costs per person to employ a camera designer.   Sales of a couple of hundred units aren't going to pay for a dev team.