Also, this camera was also probably well into the design stage when the MZ-D was announced and was and is intended to be a cheaper, less versatile camera. Unfortunately for whatever reason the MZ-D never made it to the market so Pentax users are having to accept something less than the top of the line camera.
Since it is common knowledge that Pentax was tweaking the design right up to the time they started shipping any basic design changes would have held the camera back much longer. All this is just simply a basic engineering fact of life.
I still expect an all plastic camera similar to the *ist with even less features than the *istD, and a camera similar to the MZ-D to appear in the not too distant future. (And no, I am not going to make any bets for folks to renege upon (GRIN)).
John Francis wrote:
Hogwash, they have been making bodies supporting K/M/A/F/FA ALL FULLY, ALL in same body, and all in cheap <$300 bodies. they didnt have to reinvent that stuff for the istD. Pure marketing decision IMHO. All they needed was a cheap aperture sensing cam, about a $10 part at most and a few lines of code to adjust the shutter speed slower as the aperture ring gets stopped down....
This still comes down to demanding that everybody pay the extra $10 or so, even if this is for functionality they don't want and will never use.
Tell you what - why don't you send me $1 for every $100 you spend on photographic equipment? It's only a small increase, so you'll never miss it, and if you (and all the other Pentax photographers) do this it will enable me to have a greatly improved photographic experience.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
