Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Tom Reese wrote:
>> 
>> Pentax is reportedly making their own sensors. That should give them a price
>> advantage with their new digital SLRs.
>
>Since when. 

Over a year, at this point. 

>Pentax is an Optics company not a semi-conductor company, 
>but does not have access to a chip fab as far as I'm aware.

Every digital camera manufacturer that doesn't now make their own
sensors is currently working toward being able to do so. Pentax among
them. Supposedly Pentax's CMOS sensor will be going into the ist-D
replacement.
 
 
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Mark Roberts
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