Such a camera is more than any dependent on marketing and distribution; a traditional Pentax weakness. I have no doubt that the camera is great, but the potential customers need to get to know that...
Pentax problem is not to meet demand, but to create demand for their cameras.
Make that end of 2009. 2008 will be depressing reading I fear....
What Pentax SHOULD have been working on over the last 6 months is a firmware upgrade for the K20D that delivers a USEFUL Liveview i.e can be use to show effects of exposure, WB and Focus on screen in realtime.
Of course not. It is a rumour after all! ;-)
Well speculation is best described as reasonable assumptions. Rumours come originally from people who claim specific knowledge or information. These were rumours as specific individuals claimed to have specific knowledge. However, this of course does not make them any more reliable than pure speculation - especially as these are things that Pentax should be implementing in a pro-spec DSLR.
No it doesn't. Indeed some of the things Benjamin Kanerek (SP?) was saying before the K20D was announced were/are patently not true. His assertions about a FF DSLR in September (as expressed on the 'other' forum) are best taken in a similar vein.
Well, the facts he presented were all true (after all he was shooting with it Lol ). However, he might been a bit overenthusiastic over it about how fantastic it was. This time he only supply cold facts.....
'Facts' is an interesting word to use! I guess you are right though (and I am not saying he was being deliberately misleading - overenthusiastic is a good word). We shall have to see. I must admit to being slightly impaitient as the K20D doesn't quite grab me enough to invest in one and I am eager to know when/if a higher spec model is to be released.
They are facts if they turn out true Lol
This is the perfect type of camera for online and hypermarket sales. I don't know other markets but our is price driven and a nice combo of cheaper cameras (2000D and 200D) with good kit lenses will sell a lot. Let alone those who'll buy it as a second body (and benefit from a lot of modern stuff older D cameras don't have.
Again you're wrong regarding at least my country were the number of cameras and lenses alocated by Pentax Europe is smaller than demand and hence many things are backordered. They only recently began to ship as many K200D as needed (btw K200D is a great sales hit for Pentax here).
We'll see about that and knowing the fact that I am right more often than you are
I say Pentax' market share will rise by at least 50% year to year.According to recent interviews with Hoya Pentax DSLR sales are sluggish and far from meeting targets. Markedshare is below 4%.
I wouldn't be surprised if Pentax marketshare has dropped 50% in 2008 compared to 2007....That might be streching it a little, but theres all likehood of a decline.We'll see about that and knowing the fact that I am right more often
than you are
year to year.
On a tripod good liveview zoom can be awesome for checking focus. Non-zoomed it can help to show composition in a different and sometimes more comfortable way also (Pentax has this part pretty good in my opinion).
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The K30D is a replacement model for the K20D and won't seen the light of day until 2009, probably fall 2009. The K20D has just been released. Pentax has 1 - 1 1/2 year between the models. Not 6 months! 6 months between the models are for the p&s digicompacts, not for the DSLR's.
Any existing K mount lens would need an adaptor to increase the distance from a reduced registration distance mount, slim body. The new mount would probably need to be reduced in size as well, i.e. a Kr (K reduced) mount. With an adaptor of around 20/25mm in length, your pancake lenses wouldn't seem so small!
I think it more likely that the K30D was under develoment before the K20D was marketed....
I doubt it...... There may be something you expect but it won;t be named K2000D.... I think it will be the first of the 3 series like K3000D but even more likely that the K-series may end here and we will see an M or L series...
