Thanks for passing that along, Stan. This camera has the potential to be like that song that you just hate on first listen and a couple of weeks later you can't stop singing it. I think we can see where it is being placed in the line-up with that "mid-level customer" phrase. This tells me that we will still see the excellent 16MP model(s?) for a while at the lower entry levels. so we are at least seeing a MP spread (which is important more to the marketing guys: 16, 20, 24).
This camera is aimed at the younger, probably skewed more to the female, demographic - as are most of the models with the multi-color options. If they wanted to sell a bunch more in the United States, they would make them available in NFL and college team colors. (Seriously. Steeler Nation would eat up a Black & Gold model and I'm sure a lot of other sports fans would do the same.) This model is going to be $200-250 higher than the lowest entry level model and $200-250 under the K-3. It seems to be using a lot of the technology innovated and implemented for the K-3 like the AA filter simulator. I am curious if it also contains all of the K-3 autofocus modes and whether it also is FluCard compatible (albeit with one slot). I just suspect that if the FluCard capabilities are going to be continued to be developed, we are going to have to see it work in more than one model. I also wonder how long the K-3 will remain the flagship DSLR. -- 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.
