Originally Posted by sholtzma
Here's what JJJPhoto said in another forum on PF:
"Although there is a lot to love about the K20D, it's more of an "evolutionary" replacement for the K10D rather than a "revolutionary" replacement.
By that, I mean the K10D absolutely slaughters every Pentax DSLR that came before it. The K20D, on the other hand, just offers a couple of nice features that the K10D lacks."
You may or may not feel that the K20D "just offers a couple nice features that the K10D lacks". It does seem, though, that the difference between the K10D and what came before it is much greater than the difference between the K10D and the K20D. That's why I waited to buy the K10D.
My question is whether any new Pentax released at Photokina next month will similarly "slaughter" the K10D and K20D. Does anyone (such as those with an NDA) want to comment generally on that?
The latest official info (several moths old) I saw was that the next camera would be an entry level camera. A K2000 is to be expected. I am sure there are ways to make such a camera revolutioanary (really making it as a K1000 with shutter time setting at the top, no display, as little complication as possible, only ISO shutter and F settings....as an example) but most likley that will be too expensive. On the other hand an entry level camera like all other entry level cameras will it be what Pentax needs? the MZ-M was a brave thing to do, but I do not know if Pentax made any money from it. Was used by many photo schools though, so was good marketing. Taking the M from that, maybe we will see a KMD? ;-)