Re: Nikkei Article(long) WAS: Pentax Pro DSLR (WAS: RE: Spotted on another group ...)

[Herb Chong]

right now, there a little over 100 yen to the US dollar. that means 60K yen 
will be a list price of around $650US.

Herb...
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> Lower price DSLR's are the symbol for this eagerness.
> DSLR's used to be, at least, JPY150 thousand, but Canon in
> September 2003 and Nikon in March 2004 introduced consumer
> model of slightly over JPY100 thousand.  Olympus and
> Pentax followed them last autumn.  Panasonic,
> collaborating with Olympus, is expected to introduce its
> 1st DSLR in the spring of 2006.  DSLR market, as well as
> compact digi-cam market, will be fierce battle of
> development and sales.
> The next step for consumer DSLR's will be the price range
> of consumer film SLR's around JPY60-80 thousand.  Canon,
> Nikon, and Pentax are expected to introduce this price
> range DSLR within this year.