I´m quite sure that the price is the real reason - it would have been so expensive that the market for it is extremely limited - but badged as Nikon or Canon it might have been feasible. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
-----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Antti-Pekka Virjonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Päivä: 25. lokakuuta 2001 7:32 Aihe: Re: New products and No-production >At 23:47 24.10.2001 +0900, you wrote: >>Pentax has officially announced its stopping producing 6M >>CCD digital SLR. It's because "the price will be very high to >>achieve the quality level which Pentax is pursuing" and >>therefore "the product will not be very competitive." > >Practically this means : those who wish for a professional >level digital SLR are forced to go looking at Nikon ? 6M and >larger CCD and/or CMOS imagers are pretty soon everywhere. I am sure >SLRs with full frame sensor will come out as well (any time now). > >I suppose Pentax do not wish to tell us the real reason, which propably is >technical problems with the Philips CCD. > >And I hoped I could use my SMC lenses... OK, I'm back scanning my 4x5" >slides. That's the digital quality I want! > >Antti-Pekka - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
