Around $2400 for the two year old Canon EOS 5D. Heck if Pentax produced a virtually identical camera to that, at around that price it would be fantastic.
Tom C. >From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Next move from Pentax: hints about sensor for next camera(s) >Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:49:52 -0400 > >On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:06:18AM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >From what Adam has told us about the newest sensors, 12 > > >megapixels with good noise characteristics might well be possible > > >at 1.5. > > > > Could be. But every so often I look at what Nikon's getting from 12 > > megapixels at full-frame... > >They're getting (or will soon be getting) around $4500, IIRC. >That's not Pentax's playing field. > >I won't be basing any future purchasing decisions on megapixel count. >Nor, I suspect, will most Pentax customers. I'm sure there will be >an increase (to at least 12MP), but I rarely find even 10MP a problem. >I'm much more interested in low noise at higher speeds. I don't really >care how that is achieved, either - I certainly wouldn't pay a premium >for a "FF" body greater than the cost of, say, the 12-24 DA zoom. >I'm more interested in frame rate and buffer size, which are in some >way antithetical to higher pixel counts. > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
