----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist"
Subject: Re: Pentax DSLR future
Most heavy user pros have already made their digital choices and sold off what they had to in order to achieve them. However, there is a large supply of Pentax 645 glass out there. As I said before, if the camera is priced to appeal to advanced amateurs and small budget pros (wedding photogs, nature shooters and magazine PJs for example), it might do very well. If it comes in at 10K, as some here have predicted, it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.
In it's favour, advanced amateurs and small budget pros are the vast majority of "pro" shooters. Probably less than 1/10 of 1% of pro grade shooters are in the Never Land that you work in. It'll have to be priced to sell, which means it will probably not make a whole lot of money per unit for anyone in the supply chain, but they will probably sell every one that they can spit out of the factory.
William Robb
