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Is the K10 already shipping in Europe?
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Joseph Tainter
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According to posts in another thread, Pentax may not have even begun final assembly.
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Lammy2002
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No, it's not.
Latest information says mid november.
best,
Christian
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Latest information says mid november.
best,
Christian
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Weziah
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The place I pre-ordered it (in Switzerland - 700€ for the body) says mid-october.
I hope they are right, but I doubt it...
I hope they are right, but I doubt it...
Lammy2002
Well-known member
Mid november is latest information from Photokina.
That's for Europe including Switzerland.
best,
Christian
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That's for Europe including Switzerland.
best,
Christian
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Vidu Gunaratna
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Pentax Czech Republic informed me that they expect the K10D to be available in the first half of November. Can't wait to get my hands on it
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Wagga
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Are you sure about the price? Seems quite cheap. Do you mind telling who you're buying from?
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Weziah
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Of course I'm sure... it's what I paid 
You can check it yourself here: http://www.highdefinition.ch/product/Image/CameraDigital/Pentax/Pentax_K_10D_schwarz/77786.html
It costs 1119.- CHF (swiss francs) and that's about 700€.
Electronics are usually cheaper in Switzerland than in the rest of Europe bcs here the VAT is only 7.6%.
You can check it yourself here: http://www.highdefinition.ch/product/Image/CameraDigital/Pentax/Pentax_K_10D_schwarz/77786.html
It costs 1119.- CHF (swiss francs) and that's about 700€.
Electronics are usually cheaper in Switzerland than in the rest of Europe bcs here the VAT is only 7.6%.
Edvinas
Senior Member
If you deduct VAT from your price and from Europe price we still have really large difference... €650 without VAT in Switzerland and €760 in Europe.
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Weziah
Guest
Well, what can I say? It's the price of the K10D in this swiss shop (it's usually one of the cheapest here)... I can't compare it with the prices in other shops bcs it's the only one lisitng it for now.
In the same shop the K100D body costs about 480€.
In the same shop the K100D body costs about 480€.
Edvinas
Senior Member
anyway, thank you for pointing out this shop. Look's like it is superb place to buy. Even you add to those prices high VAT of EU countries, you get lower price than getting stuff locally.
And they say Switzerland is one of the most expensive countries
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Edvinas
And they say Switzerland is one of the most expensive countries
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Edvinas
distudio
Senior Member
Alternately if you place any value on details divulged by posters "with insider information" the conglomerate of contributions paint an interesting (but not very likely) scenario. It appears that the K10D is committed to ship whether the firmware is completed or not even though the user manual has already been written/printed and that thousands of bodies have been produced and are unpackaged waiting to be hand flashed with the final BIOS. ;-)
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Rob
Ishpuini
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The word I got at Photokina was 4 weeks (that was one week ago).
Wim
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Wim
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Roland Mabo
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The firmware is ready in terms of functions and operations, what Pentax are doing now is trimming the image processing algorithms. The prototypes at Photokina had v0.2 in them, but that was a very old firmware from spring this year. Pentax was at v0.6 in August (Pentax Scandinavia has a K10D with v0.6 firmware, I guess other distributors have one too, or one with even later firmware) and are now finishing things up. My guess is their reason for putting their oldest firmware in the K10D prototypes at Photokina show was that v0.2 was the easiest to block some functions with (like reading/writing to the memory card). Pentax are way beyond v0.2 "in house", but they haven't released this firmware to prototypes outside Pentax.
Take care
R
Take care
R
Joseph Tainter
Forum Pro
Roland, what does "trimming the image processing algorithms" mean?
Thanks,
Joe
Thanks,
Joe
WaqasUsman
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He means they're neatening/improving the algorithms for better image quality, not in the sense of "cutting", but in the sense of neatening I guess.
http://pbase.com/waqas
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distudio
Senior Member
As in fine tuning, a riduculous time in the development process to be doing IQ tuning if you ask me.
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Joseph Tainter
Forum Pro
Rob, I have become concerned--not that Pentax will ship late, but that they will ship on time.
Joe
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