RE: What's up with the P30t?

[Alan Chan]

Actually the whole P series have pretty low resale value, mainly due to 
their limited features (even the top model P50). IMHO the good old ME Super 
was a better camera. However, they are great built quality wise, but many of 
them have faulty aperture resistors (since then they have moved back to gold 
plated resistors again).

Alan Chan
http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
I've been extremely pleased with my P30t, but from what I can see it
didn't really hold its value very well - only a few for sale on eBay
at lower prices, and they are the cheapest Pentax body on KEH.
Were they overshadowed by the earlier Super/Program series?  Was the
build quality lower then par for Pentax (hope not)? Or was it just
because it was the last MF body series, and everyone was heading for
AF?
I was just wondering, as I couldn't really wrap my mind around why
such a perfectly decent camera just faded away into obscurity.
-Andrew
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