On Monday, August 22, 2005, at 09:26 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Sure, it would cost me $3500 for the camera body $650 for the 70-210 f4 L, (Assume a Kit lens comes with the damned thing), and I've exhausted my funds from selling most of my Pentax kit on e-bay. If I have to start over and can't use any of my full frame lenses why buy the new camera. If Pentax builds one I'll at least be tempted.
I wouldn't hold my breath. The problem is chip availability and price. Pentax gets their chips from Sony, and Sony doesn't make a full frame chip. The only full frame chips on the open market are Fillfactory (used in the recently discontinued Kodak pro cameras) and Kodak, whose 24 X 36 CCD sells for almost ten grand per piece. Canon has a definite advantage here because they make their own chips. I don't think that the Philips/Dalsa chip that Pentax once had planned to put into a pro camera is still available. It cost too much, anyway. Unless Sony or someone else puts a low cost full frame chip on the market, Pentax, Minolta, Nikon, won't be putting out any full frame cameras.
Bob
