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
I don't doubt that they will come out with these products eventually, it's
just that they will miss the moment when they would be exciting,
state-of-the-art innovations, and wait until they are nice, but no better
than a lot of products the competition came out with 2 years earlier.
tom wrote:
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
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From: Steve Desjardins
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You know, I hate to start speculation all over agin, but the
fact that
they didn't
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From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:09 AM
Steve Desjardins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You know, I hate to start speculation all over agin, but the fact that
they didn't release anything might indiciate that they just chose to
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From: Rob Brigham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Maybe the successor to the aborted full frame MZ-D was to
be a cropped
3-4MP camera as was thought here at the time the first one
was pulled.
Maybe Pentax recently realised that this would no longer be saleable
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 08:51 AM, Rob Brigham wrote:
Maybe the successor to the aborted full frame MZ-D was to be a cropped
3-4MP camera as was thought here at the time the first one was pulled.
Maybe Pentax recently realised that this would no longer be saleable
either. Sigma
All Pentax needs to do is buy some of those Kodak
chips and stick them in the MZ-D, rememeber it was
finished they just needed a chip for it. Now that said
who knows if they are just waiting for cheaper chips?
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tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I still think we'll have a DSLR available in the spring. I'm a bit
surprised we didn't get any word of it at Photokina, but, again, we
all know Pentax are marketing freaks and don't do things the easy way.
Well, *if* Pentax has a DSLR in the works, I'm not surprized
Nikon had a few things, like the 70-200 VR/AF-S finally going on sale and a few PS
digis. Nikon did release a new DSLR this year at PMA. It seems to be a combination of
Nikon being more interested in PMA (they sell more in NA) and them announcing new
products when they have them. In many ways
There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis.
Just about as likely as this happenning, although I wish it to be
true...
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Mark,
FWIW, my local lab owner here said that from his experience, PMA shows
are bigger and more important for product announcements than
Photokina. I guess frequency is one reason. A show every two years
doesn't make for as good a venue as a show every year. Perhaps Pentax
and Nikon have
When you are that far behind the curve, it's bound to happen over and
over. At some point you have to take the plunge and start upgrading
from that. If they follow that logic, you will never see a DSLR from
Pentax. The possibility exists - it may not make enough money to
justify. It hasn't
tom,
I'm curious, what makes it so attractive to you compared to the
Contax?
Bruce
Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 7:32:42 AM, you wrote:
snip
t I generally don't pay too much attention to what goes on at these
t photo shows, but I must say the new Hasselblad has really turned my
t head. It
on 01.10.02 19:19, Rubenstein, Bruce M (Bruce) at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
They are playing with stuff in the lab. They have nothing close to a
production sample.
I assume this is about the digital slr. In fact, the pentax digital slr was
manufactured but not marketed. There are many
Just freeze the one you folks already have. Call it the Pentax Pie, and then trot out
the same thing show after show.
BR
From: Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well Bruce, I think we will have to prepare another pie for you and wait
until next year's PMA ;-)
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:56, Brendan wrote:
All Pentax needs to do is buy some of those Kodak
chips and stick them in the MZ-D, rememeber it was
finished they just needed a chip for it. Now that said
who knows if they are just waiting for cheaper chips?
Actually they are waiting for the 4
Pål, is this real? Do you have any more on this?
We need to hire a paparazzi to spy on any new Pentax products. :)
regards,
Alan Chan
I know we are all guessing (unless someone has a *real* inside line to the
top of Pentax Japan.) If they have female executives, I wonder if one of us
could infiltrate Pentax and then really gave this list something!
Now, seriously, is this 'MZ-D' the old prototype they discarded and turned
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