Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
This is just wishful thinking on my part. There's been a lot of discussion about a "baby D", and now people expressing hopes for a full frame DSLR. I'm hoping that instead of a baby D being a new DSLR with reduced feature/performance in comparison to the *ist D, that the *ist D BECOMES the baby D and that any new models have more instead of less features. For all the complaints I've read here and elsewhere about the *ist D, I think if it was competing head to head with the Digital Rebel at the same price point it would do quite well. My educational background does not include any business or marketing coursework, but it seems to me that shifting the *ist D down in price and bringing a new model in where the *ist D is now makes pretty good sense. Unless of course Pentax is selling the *ist D at really low profit margins and can't afford to do this, but if things are that tight on their top-of-the-line model I don't think there's much hope that Pentax would even survive.
Glenn
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