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From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This reply has to be made publicly. Why would you say such a thing knowing
full
well Pentax is off on a tangent pouring funds into a digital 645 body
which
will be extremely costly to develop and have very limited appeal and
marketability?
I don't think the 645D is extremely costly to develop. As high-end DSLR's
goes, it is probably dirt cheap to develop. The chassis and mechanics is
from a more than 20 year old camera. The electronics are from the *istD. The
sensor is bought in from Kodak and the digital parts are probably to a very
large extent similar to whats used in other pentax DSLR's.
The cameras marketability is probably very much larger than any MF camera
using film.
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