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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (New Concepts) wrote:

> Possibly - but the price differential (based on the original D asking 
> price) is so great one would have to assume that Pentax are
> 
> [a] getting their components much more cheaply, or
> 
> [b] have cut the wages of their workforce in half, or
> 
> [c] both.

That'll be (a), CCD sensors being subject to microelectronics price drops 
for mass production, and being a major components of the original 
production cost, with a side order of camera production getting more 
efficient with time - like every other kind of mass production.

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