This is already a game changer, it's not aimed at Nikon or Canon, it's
aimed squarely at Olympus and their e-3. It competes nicely in the
middle of the pack of APS-C mid range cameras from Nikon and Canon, but
it's clearly meant to give Olympus sales managers hives. Now if they
could only actually get them into the stores, (visited one of the locals
that used to carry Pentax yesterday, not a single Pentax product to be
seen).
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:50:30PM -0400, paul stenquist wrote:
Sounds like they're not aiming to get K20D users to convert en masse.
They're going for new users plus owners of older Pentax models who hadn't
seen a compelling reason to go for the K20D. (That'd be me, for example,
although I was tempted by the higher ISO as well.)
That kind of thinking leads me to believe we may still see a higher spec
K30D later this year. The K7 is nice, but it isn't the game changer that
some were predicting a few weeks ago.
Nah, I just think they're being realistic about whether they can sell a new
camera to every user every year. I'll be very surprised if the new camera
later this year isn't aimed to replace the K200D. I think they're going to
_try_ to keep the K-7 priced above $1000, so there's room between it and the
$500 K2000.
The "game changer" speculations have been wishful thinking for a long, long
time. I don't think the economics of it lend any support to the idea,
though.
Although it's worth noting that Adorama actually literally says this:
"The Pentax K-7 is a game changer."
<http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11608> :)
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