Herb wrote: > there are only two designers of larger than 35mm format sensors and one of > them, Dalsa, is scaling back although it is a profitable company that is > growing. Kodak reduced its MF back line from several down to one. no-one is > investing in new capacity, let alone new production facilities. no-one is > paying for it. if Pentax is going to introduce anything this year, it has to > be using a sensor that is available right now. that means it'll be priced > just like the Mamiya ZD at around $12K list using a 48x36mm 22 megapixel > sensor. it could be worse if it is priced like the Hasselblad H1D at $16K > using the same sensor. i expect the Pentax body would have to come in at > about $13K list to have a chance of recovering its costs.
Why not wait and see until the camera is actually released, provided it will be released at all. Then we will know both the specifications and the price. P�l
