On 2 Oct 2005 at 19:25, Shel Belinkoff wrote:

> I've not been reading all the messages in this thread, so maybe I missed
> something about this.
> 
> Pentax buys their sensors from Sony, iirc.  Sony has just announced, or
> released, a new camera, the DSC-R1, which uses a Sony-made, 10mp CMOS
> sensor with the dimensions of 14mm x 21mm.  The camera has a retail price
> of $1,000.00.  Seems like Pentax might do well to take advantage of this
> sensor if they can, and if Sony's putting out a camera for $1,000.00 it
> seems that the sensor price might be reasonable enough for Pentax to come
> out with a very competitively priced camera.  Any comments on this?

A sub-APS sized sensor with 1.7x crop factor, no thanks.


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