It's going to become more difficult for any dcamera manufacturer to succeed without the facility to produce a sensor. Or to at least have a serious fiscal investment in a strategic partner. New technologies (progressively larger sensors) are expensive and the manufacturers would welcome any way to guarantee immediate sales and lowered initial production capital requirements.
For Pentax to partner with someone to produce a custom or new model sensor to these specs, for the reasons given above, is not inconceivable. In fact it would be a very wise move. I hope it's true. Any larger sensor will be a good thing. Eight MP will get us to a great image quality. And given the sensor trend of working toward larger sizes, then the increase in lens coverage would be a matching and critical scenario. It would mean that Pentax users could use older or newer (digitally-optimized) lenses whereas Nikon & Canon users might well be stuck with two different versions of "digital" lenses in the very near future. They might well end up where Minolta is at. :) Collin _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
