On Aug 28, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Again from the Adorama K-S1 product feature listing: > > High-precision SAFOX IXi+ Auto Focusing > Eye-Fi and FLU Card Compatibility > stan > > 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. -- 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.
