Herb wrote:
> one might ask the same of a $10K body. how many 645D's do you think would be > sold to this mailing list? there are probably a couple of hundred *istD* > owners here. i'd say that they represent the bleeding edge of Pentax > adopters with some cash to spare. there are also a number of 645 owners. > even at $8K, which i think improbable given that the Mamiya ZD is expected > to street at $12K, there aren't going to be many. how can Pentax make the > 645D work? i think the only way it can is to give up every other type of > camera. Because there litterally hundreds of thousands of high-end Pentax MF users world wide. The Pentax 645 dominates the Japanese MF market which is the largest in the world. Pentax have 40% market share there. In addition, so far theres no competition to this camera and it will appeal to anyone wanting better quality than 35mm can provide. Just like Pentax MF outsold Pentax film 35mm high-end cameras (admittedly very few such cameras models exists) a digital MF system will outsell a high-end K-mount DSLR; not at least because the competition is far less. Pål
