On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:23:17AM +0200, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: > John Francis wrote on 22.08.05 4:53: > > > Personally I'm more interested in the other announcements - the > > 12-24 will ship in October, and there'll be a new flash with the > > power of the 500, bit with all the new high-speed flash abilities.
> Let's hope these two annoucements mean that *istD successor is coming sooner > that we think ;-) After all it is about 2 years old ;-) I'm not reading any more into it than the fact that a very tempting new lens, and a rather tempting flash unit, have been announced. If Pentax marketing had a coherent, credible strategy this might suggest that there was still some intention to produce products for the serious photographer. For me - I don't *want* the Dn too early; it will be bad enough trying to get a new flash as well as the 12-24.