>From what I've gathered, the project has not stopped - just gone into shock
at the realization of what the actual retail price might be. Ever since
Photokina the figure $7,000 has been tossed around. As far as I can tell,
Pentax has NEVER officially announced this price - it seems that it was pure
specualtion on the part of the Chasseur d'Image journalists.
The Mega-Vision S3 Pro digital back seems to use the same CCD chip set and
retails for $14,900 out of B&H. Rumours out of Germany for the Contax
digital SLR (same CCD as the Pentax) place the retail price in the DM18,000
to 22,000 range. If Pentax can put this on the market for less than that,
then I'd say that they've really accomplished something.
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