My guess is that they did a certain amount of production run and that is it. With electronics, obsolesence is a big issue. There is a successor to the *istD going to come out at some point so they would stop production and sell all the inventory while it has value.
-- Best regards, Bruce Saturday, June 11, 2005, 3:14:33 PM, you wrote: SB> Hmmm ... what would be the reason for Pentax discontinuing or curtailing SB> production of the istD? I think this may have been discussed before, but I SB> wasn't paying attention, not being too interested in the camera at the time. SB> Shel >> [Original Message] >> From: Paul Stenquist >> I think Pentax may have stopped producing the *istD. It's available new >> from B&H in New York.
