Originally posted by AGWoodard Well then give it a week or so to see where the prices end up before we question whether the sky is falling or not.
A lot of people asked for a K7 with the KX sensor and better AF in the same body as the K7. It seems we got what we wanted, and now we're going to gripe about how much more it is than the Canikon and blah blah blah? No one KNOWS what the price will be because no one has bought one yet.
No Pentax owner should be upset that Canon or Nikon has priced there cameras lower than the Pentax. Canikon obviously knows what their products are worth, so let it go at that.
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I don't recall any of my posts implying that the sky was falling, nor am I griping about a camera that I'm not going to buy on the retail market, and again I'm not upset. You seem to be overreacting to some imagined negative attitude in my posts. Chill, man.
I'm simply pointing out that the current pricing strategy (according to available material from Pentax, which is as official as we're going to get) may affect initial sales of the K-5 in a negative way. That's not my main concern, however, as market forces will put the price where it should be after a little time on the market. My main point in posting, again, is my confusion over why there's such a difference between the UK pricing relative to the competition and the US pricing relative to the competition. I'm hoping someone has some insight on that (or that we may hear that the reported MSRP, like so many other specifications today, has been misreported).
I'm quite excited by the K-5's announcement and look forward to owning one in probably a bit more than a year from now. This little economic oddity piqued my curiosity; can't I discuss it without being accused of being an alarmist?