Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-02 Thread David A. Mann
Peter Alling wrote: They'd have to redesign the electronics to handle it, the sensor wouldn't/couldn't be just a direct replacement. That's not much of a problem considering all the effort they put into designing the rest of the body. Tooling is expensive (so is development time) and

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-02 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I don't doubt that they will come out with these products eventually, it's just that they will miss the moment when they would be exciting, state-of-the-art innovations, and wait until they are nice, but no better than a lot of products the competition came out with 2 years earlier. tom wrote:

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-02 Thread Peter Alling
Yes that is true but all of the support circuitry would have to be redesigned. I think that one of the problems that Pentax had with the so called MZ-D was that they planned to steal a 2 year jump on the competition with a 6 megapixel full frame design and realized they had a soon to

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-02 Thread Cameron Hood
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RE: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Rob Brigham
PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 October 2002 14:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina - Original Message - From: Steve Desjardins Subject: Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina You know, I hate to start speculation all over agin, but the fact that they didn't

RE: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
-Original Message- From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:09 AM Steve Desjardins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, I hate to start speculation all over agin, but the fact that they didn't release anything might indiciate that they just chose to

RE: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread tom
-Original Message- From: Rob Brigham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Maybe the successor to the aborted full frame MZ-D was to be a cropped 3-4MP camera as was thought here at the time the first one was pulled. Maybe Pentax recently realised that this would no longer be saleable

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Dan Scott
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 08:51 AM, Rob Brigham wrote: Maybe the successor to the aborted full frame MZ-D was to be a cropped 3-4MP camera as was thought here at the time the first one was pulled. Maybe Pentax recently realised that this would no longer be saleable either. Sigma

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Brendan
All Pentax needs to do is buy some of those Kodak chips and stick them in the MZ-D, rememeber it was finished they just needed a chip for it. Now that said who knows if they are just waiting for cheaper chips? __ Post your

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Mark Roberts
tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still think we'll have a DSLR available in the spring. I'm a bit surprised we didn't get any word of it at Photokina, but, again, we all know Pentax are marketing freaks and don't do things the easy way. Well, *if* Pentax has a DSLR in the works, I'm not surprized

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Rubenstein, Bruce M (Bruce)
Nikon had a few things, like the 70-200 VR/AF-S finally going on sale and a few PS digis. Nikon did release a new DSLR this year at PMA. It seems to be a combination of Nikon being more interested in PMA (they sell more in NA) and them announcing new products when they have them. In many ways

RE: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Rob Brigham
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis. Just about as likely as this happenning, although I wish it to be true... -Original Message- From: Brendan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 October 2002 15:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Pentax Product's

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Pål Jensen
on 01.10.02 19:19, Rubenstein, Bruce M (Bruce) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They are playing with stuff in the lab. They have nothing close to a production sample. I assume this is about the digital slr. In fact, the pentax digital slr was manufactured but not marketed. There are many

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Rubenstein, Bruce M (Bruce)
Just freeze the one you folks already have. Call it the Pentax Pie, and then trot out the same thing show after show. BR From: Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well Bruce, I think we will have to prepare another pie for you and wait until next year's PMA ;-)

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Valentin Donisa
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:56, Brendan wrote: All Pentax needs to do is buy some of those Kodak chips and stick them in the MZ-D, rememeber it was finished they just needed a chip for it. Now that said who knows if they are just waiting for cheaper chips? Actually they are waiting for the 4

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Alan Chan
Pål, is this real? Do you have any more on this? We need to hire a paparazzi to spy on any new Pentax products. :) regards, Alan Chan

Re: New Pentax Product's/Photokina

2002-10-01 Thread Brad Dobo
I know we are all guessing (unless someone has a *real* inside line to the top of Pentax Japan.) If they have female executives, I wonder if one of us could infiltrate Pentax and then really gave this list something! Now, seriously, is this 'MZ-D' the old prototype they discarded and turned