Your book is out of date. I was assumung around $1500 street price at introduction. The K20D is selling for under $700 now.
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 03:52:33PM -0400, paul stenquist wrote: > Has a price figure been quoted? You say twice the price of a K20D, so > we're looking at $2400 for an APS-C camera? That would be exorbitant in > my book. > Paul > On May 19, 2009, at 1:46 PM, John Francis wrote: > >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:30:08AM -0400, paul stenquist wrote: >>> Will the K-7 be the expensive model, or is simply a new line? If it's >>> clear that this will be the top offering, I'll go for it. >>> Paul >> >> That probably depends on how well it sells. >> Really good sales could permit a follow-on model, but I don't >> regard this as a priority for Pentax (or, even more, for Hoya). >> I see this as the top offering for at least the next two years. >> >> We've already seen some of the posters here underwhelmed by >> anything new in this camera, so the number of people willing to >> pay twice the price of a K20D/K30D for a camera that doesn't offer >> them all that much in day-to-day use is probably fairly small. >> For that matter I'm not sure how I'd feel if I already had a K20D. >> I'd want the new features. But how much would I pay for them? >> >> Even if there are plans to make the K-7 the start of a range, >> I'm sure the next models to come along would be aimed at a far >> lower price point. But, as I've mentioned before, I think that >> we're a lot more likely to see Pentax moving to EVF cameras much >> more akin to the Panasonic G1; DSLRs, with complex and expensive >> mechanical assemblies, may well be near the end of their life. >> >> [All else below is even more speculative: stop now if you don't care] >> >> If Pentax do move to a new range (with a smaller register distance), >> I wouldn't be surprised to see auto focus for K-mount lenses only >> working with SDM. The interesting point is aperture control; >> at present that's still done mechanically. Will we see lenses >> with stop-down motors in the lens itself? And, if so, will the >> adapter for K-mount lenses have a mechanical aperture actuator? >> (I suppose it could also offer screwdriver-mode AF, but I don't >> think that would happen). >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
