It occurs to me that as the technology continues to improve and prices continue to drop, Pentax will pretty much have to put out a digital SLR if they want to stay in the SLR business at all. As I understand it, the $8000 units are already becoming competitive, performance-wise, with film. It's probably not so many years before they're $600 units while the $100 mass market model is better than they are now, and the new $8000 units out-perform film in a variety of ways, and then we'll see film becoming obsolete.
And then, when I follow my usual pattern of buying into a technology after it's been mature for years, I'll find the usual result of the industry standardizing for simplicity and compatibility on something other than what I just bought.
