Or maybe the problem they discovered with the Phillips chip is going to raise the price of the chip, in order for it to function properly. This may then make the cost of the Pentax camera unrealistic.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Antti-Pekka Virjonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:14 PM Subject: Re: New products and No-production > At 23:47 24.10.2001 +0900, you wrote: > >Pentax has officially announced its stopping producing 6M > >CCD digital SLR. It's because "the price will be very high to > >achieve the quality level which Pentax is pursuing" and > >therefore "the product will not be very competitive." > > Practically this means : those who wish for a professional > level digital SLR are forced to go looking at Nikon ? 6M and > larger CCD and/or CMOS imagers are pretty soon everywhere. I am sure > SLRs with full frame sensor will come out as well (any time now). > > I suppose Pentax do not wish to tell us the real reason, which propably is > technical problems with the Philips CCD. > > And I hoped I could use my SMC lenses... OK, I'm back scanning my 4x5" > slides. That's the digital quality I want! > > Antti-Pekka > > --- > * Antti-Pekka Virjonen * Fiskarsinkatu 7 D * GSM: +358 400 789753 * > * Computec Oy Turku * FIN-20750 Turku Finland * Fax: +358 2 413 7777 * > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
