Over here, the K200D is massively overpriced. It's not a budget camera at all. I can get a Nikon D40 for under $450CDN, or a Sony A200 (which matches or exceeds the K200D in all regards except weather sealing) for $500 or less, both of those with their respective kit lenses but a K200D just dropped to $700, still $50 more than the A200 _Launched_ at.
Needless to say, nobody's buying K200D's in Canada. It's been a massive failure. And US pricing is WORSE for Pentax (K200D is $800 with $100 mail in rebate, A200 is $500). Pentax badly needs a competitive budget camera, every other maker has a better option right now (either less money or more features & performance AND less money). -Adam On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:37 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not much after PMA there was a 'rumour' that german Pentax fan forum users > met the german Pentax guys to test the K20D and they said there will be > two new Pentax cams at Photokina, one with 3 digits and one with 1 digits. > So K2D (since K1D existed as a prototype) is very probable and I hope the > 3 digit one is the 645D (remember PMA? There was a hint about 645D). > > I believe the K2D will use the new Full Frame Samsung CMOS and hopefully > not targeted to be a competitor to the Pro (Canon EOS 1D MarkIV/Nikon D3) > level but the EOS 5D/D700. > > K1000D low budget cam? I don't really think that would be necessary. The > K200D is very well placed in the budget category (it's cheap enough but > with only a few compromises need to made). A few bucks cheaper cam would > make no sense at all to me (like Canon EOS 1000D...) since so far Pentax > seemed to me to target quality over marketing features. > > An "entry-level" MF camera would be a big hit and nowadays the technology > is ready for a cheaper production. If Pentax could manage to sell it > around a bit higher than the EOS 1Ds MarkIV (approx 10K$) then it could > easily take place next to the Pro Level DSLRs of Canon and Nikon. Lens are > already available for the 645 system... So let's hope :D Also at > http://www.pentaximaging.com/purchase/find_a_store you can still see the > product category: digital medium format. > > Cheers, > .t > >> Please don't tell me you don't care, subject is clear so if you don't >> want to know or discuss anything, don't read ! >> >> * BEGIN RUMOUR NEWS * >> >> In the current state of things (if that can be said for rumours), >> Pentax is beleived to introduce at least one new camera around >> Photokina, possibly two. >> There're a no details about this/these camera(s) but it should be >> fairly easy to speculate if anyone wants to. >> >> * if one camera -> budget camera (e.g. K1000D) or high end (K1D/K5D)... >> * if two camera, seems clear it would be those two except if Pentax >> feels they need to upgrade K200D or K20D but it seems doubtful to me. >> >> * END RUMOUR NEWS * >> >> One usualy good source has confirmed that at least one camera was >> coming, without giving any detail (NDA as usual). >> >> At least two Pentax distributors have indeed confirmed to a couple >> users that the 60-250 wouldn't be there before Photokina :( :( >> >> >> That's it (much isn't it?) you can get back to your usual stuff. >> >> -- >> Thibault Massart aka Thibouille >> ---------------------- >> Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... >> Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB >> Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
