Originally posted by guinnessman I'm guessing $1200-1300. $1300 was the launch price of the K3, $1200 puts it in line with the EOS 90D. $1500 would put it with the current price of the D500.
Given current economics, competition, I would be surprised, unless the specs are an absolute out of the park home run.
How much will it cost? Who knows, but my guess is that it will definitely cost more than the K-3, K-3II, & KP.
You gotta remember that this body has a lot of stuff that no other DSLR has. A viewfinder that magnifies as large as a FF viewfinder, probably an enhanced 5-axis IBIS, a newer sensor, a much more advanced AF system
(might not be D500 like, but probably far better than anything Pentax has released before it), & a host of other features that a Nikon D500 doesn't have nor any other DSLR on the market.
The D500 is amazing when it comes to AF performance, but outside of that, it's kind of meh. It doesn't have IBIS for when you want to shoot low light static scenes & can't lug around a tripod. Most of their primes are not stabilized either. Nikon also wants you to get a FF instead. Their APS-C support is very lacking. It's kind of gigantic too. Same thing with the Sony a6600. Super awesome AF, but everything else kind of sucks. The IBIS is lame & it's very laggy when it comes to switching settings on it. If Sony calls than an APS-C flagship, then they must be smoking something really good. Sony is also trying to move everyone to FF & that's probably why the skimped so heavily on the a6600. Then there's the lack of APS-C specific lenses. Why pay for FF lenses to only get wasted on an APS-C sensor? Might as well move up to the a7 line for a few hundred dollars more.
There's more to a camera than AF alone & image quality alone. It definitely needs to be balanced. The only other APS-C camera that tempts me is the Fujifilm X-T4. It might not have AF on the level of the a6600 or D500, but the AF on that is still a lot better than anything Pentax currently offers & it also has IBIS. One can even shoot decent video with it, not that it matters much to me.
But yeah. There's a lot of competition out there too.