Re: *ist-Ds price drop

[Herb Chong]

FWIW, CIPA says that Japanese manufactures build about 2.5M DSLRs in 2004. 
Canon formally announced production of 1.3M in 2004. best guess for Nikon is 
700-800K. that leaves between 300K and 400K units for everyone else 
combined. i believe, with no proof, that Pentax accounts for most of the 
remainder. Canon  also said that they will announce 3 new DSLRs this year. 
we have seen one already in the D-Rebel XT. i don't know if i would call the 
20Da a new DSLR or not. no matter how you count things though, that means at 
least one more DSLR announcement this year from Canon.

Herb...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "pentax-discuss" <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: *ist-Ds price drop


The *ist-Ds isn't really that old--it's only been shipping for, what, 
three months?  The *ist-D starting shipping in the summer of 2003 and went 
out of production at the end of 2004.  I would expect that Pentax is 
planning to ship the *ist-Ds for a total of at least 12 months and maybe 
18.  At $725 vs $780 for the current D-Rebel and ~$900 for the 
just-announced D-Rebel XT, it looks like a pretty good deal.