Yes that is true but all of the support circuitry would have to be redesigned. I think that one of the problems that Pentax had with the so called MZ-D was that they planned to steal a 2 year jump on the competition with a 6 megapixel full frame design and realized they had a soon to overpriced middle of the road offering. What was the time between the expected release date of the MZ-D and Kodak's 11 megapixel full frame offering, about 6 months, I believe. Pentax has to re-think it's marketing plan as well as take that R&D and build a more competitive product.
At 07:17 PM 10/2/2002 +1200, you wrote: >Peter Alling wrote: > > > They'd have to redesign the electronics to handle it, the sensor > > wouldn't/couldn't be just > > a direct replacement. > >That's not much of a problem considering all the effort they put into >designing the rest of the body. Tooling is expensive (so is development >time) and it'd be a shame to waste the investment. I think that >releasing the MZ-D with a different sensor would be a very good idea. > >Cheers, > >- Dave > >http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
