Originally posted by eddie1960 it'll be the same cmos as the nikon P510 , really we are desperate for news here lol, ITS A BRIDGE CAMERA SUPERZOOM FOLKS. LIKELY $350 NOT ANYTHING REMOTELY RESEMBLING A DSLR LEVEL
Top of the line Nikon, Canon, Sony, Fuji, etc. for this type of bridge camera sell for about $430-$500. When has PRICL ever released anything that was a direct competitor at the low end of the price spectrum? At $500 it would be $200 less than a K-30 body. Do you think that PRICL will manufacture a dSLR body for $600+/- to fill the gap between this X-5 and the K-30, albeit without a cheap $50 kit lens?
I agree that ITS A BRIDGE CAMERA SUPERZOOM FOLKS. I didn't write anything to the contrary. However, I think the very nature of bridge cameras is to resemble dSLR's. That is the marketing angle for such products. Some buy into it, some don't. For me, the only thing that PRICL can do with this camera to truly differentiate it would be to shoot RAW. That may be doubtful, but if they were to truly leverage the K-01, K-30, K-5 template I can't see why it wouldn't shoot RAW. I also think that this camera could be one of two things: 1) A similar product to the Nikon P510, or some such, or 2) an extension of the same templates that we have seen for the K-5, K-01 and K-30, or Q for that matter. Seeing as the newer releases (K-01 and K-30) were heavily built upon the K-5, PRICL has shown a tendency to squeeze every last drop out of that sensor/processor model. Also, it has been Pentax mantra to be "different." If this is a straight copy of the Nikon P510, or some such, then it isn't really different, is it?
There were some posts about P&S's being all badged Ricoh in the future. Obviously this one is badged Pentax. Is the strategy to have a camera like this pull from the Pentax dSLR cachet - if there actually is one? Maybe. If it is, then I think that this could be the entry-level camera that people say is the 4th dSLR. It just ain't a dSLR.