Sooo... if you think there will be a full-frame Pentax within a year, why get a Sony in April?
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Wed, 2/24/10, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think it's so much a matter > of Pentax moving up to full-frame > as full-frame coming down to Pentax's current demographic. > Right now > the entry point for full-frame is $2000 (U.S.) but > absolutely no one > believes it's going to remain that high. > > What's interesting to me is the question of which direction > Pentax > eventually takes with full-frame: High-megapixel and high > resolution > (like the Sony A850) or big-pixel-size and low-noise (like > the Nikon > D700). I'm thinking it might be the latter... > > The 645D is interesting, but it still leaves a ridiculous > gap between > a $1000 body like the K7 and an approximately-$10,000 > medium format > camera. Hoya probably made the decision to revive the 645D > because > development was so far along that didn't make sense to > leave it > dormant, and the MF market seems to have started leveling > out around > 40-50 megapixels (they'd have had problems if they'd > introduced it at > the originally-planned 18 megapixels). > > > -- > 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.
