There's a market at the e-p1 price point. I have no idea what Leica would sell this for, but for everyone else it has to be below $1000. Olympus has sold a bunch of e-p1's at the $800-900 range.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Graydon Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9:34 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Leica X1 On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:21:14AM -0400, Desjardins, Steve scripsit: > This looks neat: > > http://www.dpreview.com/news/0909/09090908leicax1.asp > > I still think Pentax should make something like this with > interchangeable lenses. I'm not sure there's a market there at the price point. Once you've got either k-mount, or something that an adaptor can enable k-mount for, it's not clear that there's a net gain over the compact DSLRs. You get a somewhat smaller body, but you lose the optical viewfinder. A completely separate set of lenses is possible -- there's only really a requirement for 3 (wide zoom, long zoom, fast normal prime) to see if the thing will fly -- but again, that's a big investment for a market even more niche than compact, weather-resistant DSLRs. My expectation is that Samsung, who have no DSLR traction to speak of, might go for this, but Pentax is not likely to do so; they're having enough trouble generating real momentum in their core DSLR business. P&S cameras are a place where they've been pushed completely niche. I could just be a basically cranky person; I don't _want_ something that doesn't have a good optical viewfinder, or makes me try to emulate a person with smaller hands. -- 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. -- 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.
