On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > I don't think it's so much a matter of Pentax moving up to full-frame > as full-frame coming down to Pentax's current demographic. Right now > the entry point for full-frame is $2000 (U.S.) but absolutely no one > believes it's going to remain that high. > > What's interesting to me is the question of which direction Pentax > eventually takes with full-frame: High-megapixel and high resolution > (like the Sony A850) or big-pixel-size and low-noise (like the Nikon > D700). I'm thinking it might be the latter... > Or an optimized APS format camera. That might be the direction Pentax takes. I don't care one way or the other, but the lens lineup suggests that full frame isn't in Pentax' product plan.
Paul > The 645D is interesting, but it still leaves a ridiculous gap between > a $1000 body like the K7 and an approximately-$10,000 medium format > camera. Hoya probably made the decision to revive the 645D because > development was so far along that didn't make sense to leave it > dormant, and the MF market seems to have started leveling out around > 40-50 megapixels (they'd have had problems if they'd introduced it at > the originally-planned 18 megapixels). > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
