With Canon, Nikon and now Sony filling the FF niche, there is little chance that a fourth-comer can make a successful venture in this small market. The big deal with the new Panasonic G1 is that it is creating a new niche for itself ie. a smaller interchangeable lens camera. The med format niche is filled with expensive backs for the Hassy and others. Pentax has inadvertently kept it's lens out of the back market because of the insert making it difficult if not impossible to devise an interchangeable back/insert for it. However, if they can create the landscape/nature med format digital at a decent cost, then they will have created a new niche. For whatever reason the Mamiya digital is not doing well with its new owners in charge. I don't know the details of this.
I have about 10 P645 lens on the shelf waiting for the new 645D. Or I might just return to the new Ektar 100. Warren -- 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.
