Pentax *ist D price and availability (was OT: Olympus 4/3 premiere)

2003-06-24 Thread Pedro Oliveira 
Hi.

Just an info (a letter to the members of the Pentax Clube) I received
from the Portuguese Pentax importer (BCL):

Availability: sometime in August/2003
Street price: 1.800/2.000 Euros body only (VAT included)

Take care.

Pedro Oliveira
AOHC member nr. 246


-Mensagem original-
De: Brendan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviada: terça-feira, 24 de Junho de 2003 10:41
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assunto: Re: OT: Olympus 4/3 premiere

Now if Pentax can only put a full mount in the D
we'll all get one.

 --- Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
on 24.06.03 10:58, Rob Studdert at
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Great concept but they are going to have a hard
 time selling this one. The
  price looks pretty high, the ISO is relatively low
 and the lenses are all
  pretty slow (and not as small as one would
 expect).
 Actually E-1 body is bigger and heavier by 150g than
 *ist D. And it has only
 5 MPix... You are right - only some specialized pros
 will buy it (mainly for
 weather sealed body and lenses)
 
 -- 
 Best Regards
 Sylwek
 
 
  

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Re: Pentax *ist D price and availability (was OT: Olympus 4/3 premiere)

2003-06-24 Thread Mark Roberts 
Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

on 24.06.03 13:20, Pedro Oliveira at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Just an info (a letter to the members of the Pentax Clube) I received
 from the Portuguese Pentax importer (BCL):
 
 Availability: sometime in August/2003
 Street price: 1.800/2.000 Euros body only (VAT included)
 
Hmmm... 1800 Euro. Canon 10D has street price about 1890 Euro. I hope real
street price for *ist D in Europe will be slightly lower (1600-1700 Euro?) -
then it will help Pentax to sell DSLR well.

You can be sure the Pentax DSLR will be almost exactly the same as the
Canon 10D. They're expected to be on back order almost immediately.

-- 
Mark Roberts
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