On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 09:46:51PM -0400, John Francis scripsit: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:12:31PM -0400, Graydon wrote: [snip] > > > The next Pentax bodies will be sold on (low) price, not on features. > > > > They're busy staking out "small", "tough", and "good value" as their > > chunk of the feature space. That's not consistent with a plan to > > compete on price, which would be crazy anyway. > > We pretty much agree, I think; I should have said price/performance > (or, for those pedants among us, performance/price :-). But I see > Pentax as more likely to do that by lowering the price for close to > the current performance levels (although there is room for two models > between the K-m and the K-7, at the $600-$700 and $900 price points).
The loss of face would be pretty drastic, and wouldn't do good things to market uptake, which they're apparently managing to generate a bit of. Option 1: They actually ship the 645D, for real and serious. It takes the place of the "full frame" body in the lineup. Option 2: 2010 sees the alleged Samsung full-frame sensor ship in a Pentax body. Option 3: K mount or other EVIL teeny camera, Pentax abandons the DSLR field. Option 4: K-5 APS-C camera based on the K-7 body; visually almost indistinct. K-5 has a 15 MP shaved silicon sensor/other not used in commercial sensors yet tech sensor and demonstrates vastly (x2) improved dynamic range, coupled with 2,500 raw exposures per batter charge. I figure the likelihood goes 4,1,2,3. (Assuming 1 and 2 are _different_.) But, heh, the entrails are hazy; don't blame me if what we get is an eight kilo brick of titanium and glass certified to a depth of 1,200 m in salt water for a year. -- Graydon -- 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.
