My thinking is that there is that the Kr comes in at higher price point than the Kx. I think it still have a huge market portion that the Kr will not replace unless it comes down to $500. I was very amused by the pictures of the Japanese Kx's in blister packs.
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd guess that Pentax is keeping the K-x model going because they can very > easily compete with the entry level Canons and Nikons right now. > > The K-x is, AFAICT, doing great biz for Pentax here in Canada. Stores that > haven't carried Pentax for years are selling the K-x alongside other entry > level Canons and Nikons, and beating them all on price. My BIL was able to > grab a K-x with kit lens for my niece for about $530 Canadian a few weeks > ago. The store he got it from is Blacks, a country-wide chain that mainly > caters to the P&S crowd. For the last few years Blacks only carried a few > Pentax P&S's like the waterproof models. > > I have no way of knowing if Pentax is simply dumping the remainder of > existing K-x inventory before price-dropping the K-r or if in fact they are > manufacturing new K-x stock to supply the demand for price-sensitive entry > level DSLRs here. > > But in any event it's a good sign that the Pentax name is returning to > mainstream retailers here. > > -bmw > > On 10-12-20 8:49 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: >> >> IMO it is extremely unlikely. Kr is obviously an upgrade of Kx, therefore >> it would have to be purely marketing decision to keep both. I don't think >> Pentax has the capacity to /keep/ producing three 16x24 frame cameras and >> 645D at the same time. >> >> On 12/20/2010 3:46 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >>> >>> I'll be curious to see if Pentax maintains three levels of body >>> prices, i.e., Kx, Kr, K5. >> > > > -- > 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
