On 11/5/04, BRUCE D, discombobulated, offered: >I tend to agree. For Pentax, selling a bit downstream into the 300D >market makes a lot of sense. There are many sales to be had. Going >upstream from the *istD, however, seems much more difficult. Two big >reasons to me. >1) Canon and Nikon have multiple models in that segment - these are >very well received and very well endowed - the best Pentax would be >able to do is a "me too" type of camera that would be selling into the >$3000-5000 range. Not many buyers and very few Pentax buyers. >2) When moving upstream to higher end bodies, the system surrounding >the camera becomes much more important. The lack of IS, USM and high >speed glass, especially in the zoom category is a big weakness for >Pentax and would need to be released about the same time or at least >shown that these things will be available shortly. This is not going >to happen. > >My guess is that you are going to see the next generation *istD rather >than an upper model (in a sense, it will be an upper model to the >current *istD spec) - probably bigger sensor (megapixels, not >necessarily size), a few new/more features, fixes to problems in existing >*istD, etc. The *ist D will slowly phase out as stock is depleted.
I was going to write virtually the same thing - honest. This is my feeling exactly. Actually, if Pentax had any sense and listened to the brains on this list, the *ist D mark 2 could be a very special camera indeed....... Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________
