Re: Special Interview with PENTAX @PMA

[Herb Chong]

the price drop will be very slow because the few larger format sensor 
manufacturers out there are not investing in more capacity. in fact, i 
expect prices hold for the foreseeable future because there isn't any more 
capacity. a MF DSLR will have a sensor slightly larger than a full frame 
35mm DSLR for a lot more money. what's the point if there will be a large 
crop factor and you have to replace your short lenses with even shorter 
ones? a full frame 35mm DSLR will have no crop factor, almost identical 
resolution, and cost a bit less.

Herb....
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Subject: Re: Special Interview with PENTAX @PMA


Maybe, but it still depend on price developments for sensors. History 
tells us that any mass  market comodity with low yield rate and high cost 
eventually drop in price. It depends on the price difference between 35mm 
sized sensors and larger ones. Even 35mm full frame sensors won't have a 
future unless the price gap to the APS sized sensors become smaller. Time 
will tell....
Anyway, according to Pentax they will market a MF based DSLR (almost 
certainly with the 645 mount) withing a year (regardless of demand it 
seems!). This will be Pentax pro offering. Below it will be a k-mount 
prosumer body that might have a full frame sensor (depending on how you 
interpret the interview). The bottom, entry level, will be *ist D 
variations. Pentax may of course change plans but it seems that for next 
two years or so there are two DSLR's coming from Pentax appealing to the 
enthusiast a K-mount prosumer bodu and a 645 mount professional body.