Hi Henry Well, I guess the csots of developing the MZ-S body has allready been paid for by the MS-S sales. I's might probably be cheaper to reuse the MZ-S framework, rather than starting all over again. The MZ-S sell for appr. 700-800 USD, leaving a little economic space for implementing the electronics... Jens
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Iren & Henry Chu [mailto:irenhenry@;hotmail.com] Sendt: 27. oktober 2002 14:18 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: RE: Exclusive picture of "new" Pentax D-SLR >Hi all >This is a very long thread based on the fact, that one Taiwaneese magasine >didn't have a picture of the future/new Pentax DSLR, that is going to >replace the abandoned (MZ-S-like) one, and used a two year old picture. > >We seem to know, it's going to have a 16x24mm 5 megapix CCD (?), a >KAF-mount >and will cost appr. 1500 USD/Euro's (Body only). As I recall the D MZ-S was >supposed to cost about 6000-8000 USD/Euros, which means the new one must be >very much different - since it costs about 1/4. >I'll probably buy one instead of the MZ-S I never got. Although the photos are old, the message is that the new D-SLR will not be quite different to the old one. There is another important point from the Taiwanese report: Pentax aims at pricing the new D-SLR's to about half of the existing D-SLRs like D100 and D60 (list price = 330,000yen). It's planned price competitor is Sigma SD-9. The list price is the same at 200,000yen. Pentax Taiwan expected a street price of about USD1,200. Regards Henry Chu 27/10/2002 _________________________________________________________________ Choose an Internet access plan right for you -- try MSN! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp
