Why nobody cares about pentax supesonic focus? - 1

I have a DSLR Pentax K200-D Camera it works just great but now I want one that records HD movies since I'm an actor. I went to the store last night to try the Nikon D5100 which seems just great, specially fot the price. But when I tested it I noticed the autofocus is extremely slow. The lens of my Pentax camere has a supersonic motor which makes the autofocus incredibly fast but of all the reviews that I've read on the internet nobody even mentions it.

That is typical of the Pentax product. I reentered the DSLR market a couple of years ago and decided on a Pentax Kx DSLR. Boy oh boy am I thrilled with the results and the general handling of the camera!
But the company does not put enough promotion of their products out there. And to make matters worse the few people on this site, who know cameras can't see passed Canon & Nikon.

Amen to that, Nick. Asahi optical built the Asahiflex - the first Japanese SLR. It's grandson, the original Pentax introduced what became a standard control layout for SLRs until the advent of AF.

Pentax were among the pioneers of open-aperture TTL metering, instant-return mirrors and autofocus, and they've made some superb cameras over the years (just look at the LX - emerging into a pro market dominated by (inferior) Canon and Nikon it never had a chance).

As a Pentax user for longer than many on this site have been alive, I find the present obsession with Canon and Nikon a little hard to swallow.

The biggest issue in my mind - as a Nikon owner - is where Pentax will be in a few years.

They were sold to Hoya a couple of years ago… Or maybe not. Some say they were a division of Hoya, some say they were independent of Hoya's management. It really doesn't matter, but I remember a bunch of people very upset at who was in charge of what.

At any rate it does not matter as they were recently sold to Ricoh.

Regardless, Pentax is bouncing around like a rubber ball, and that is generally not a good thing for the long term health of a product. Each time a "bounce" happens, how many engineers and scientists do they shed? Or does the new owner's vision for what constitutes a quality camera same as the old?

Since DSLRs for the most part are a "system", and people usually purchase additional lenses and other accessories over the years which can result in a sizeable investment, where will Pentax be in 5 to 10 years from now?

So in reality, there's a lot more to consider in a DSLR than just what is available today, or what the performance of a camera is. Will they be there tomorrow.

Anytime you go beyond Nikon or Canon, you have to consider the possibility of the long term health of the camera brand, and I think that is one major issue affecting Pentax, and even Sony to some degree.

Given the track record over the last 5 years, one can't ignore the fact that the brand is not on stable ground - the passing of the brand from company to company proves otherwise.

Again, that says nothing of how good a Pentax is or isn't, it's just that a lot of people do not want to take the risk.