On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:41:12PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Your source is either kidding you or himself: In a year *someone* (my > money's on Sony) will have a FF camera for around $1600. The $1500 > price point won't be far behind. (That's what the ist-D sold for when > it was first released.)
Not quite - the release price was $1695, which is what I paid for mine from one of the big mail-order houses (B&H, Adorama, and the like). But, in any case, I don't see the threat to the APS-C cameras coming from the upper end - quite the contrary. There are already several very capable 4/3 and Micro-4/3 cameras on the market. It's hard to convince a first-time buyer that the extra size and weight of the DSLRs is worthwhile (although the entry-level DSLRs do still have a bit of a price advantage). I see the advanced amateur consumer market moving to the smaller, lighter format, while the APS-C cameras will remain at the low end of the prosumer market. "FF" won't replace APS-C; they each have their own niche to fill, and each performs its own job better. But if the market segment isn't large enough to support more than one competing format I suspect the eventual survivor will be APS-C. -- 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.
