Originally posted by montecarlo The two blinked models are already known, remains the shadowy one.....
Therefore I predict something new the size of a K20D, which could only mean K20D super....
Originally posted by Richard Day This thread is now worse than anything on DPR, more speculation and handwringing than ever!
I don't believe Pentax will release any details of new items until the day before Photokina (22 Sept) and that many peoples expectations may well be dashed, and a bit of a dissapointment to some. I may be wrong, but I just have this gut feeling.
Well see my reply above, I agree.
But it won't make much to dissapoint the majority of "what to expect" posters
Even with two new dslr's they won't be happy as (I have counted the expected models) as there should be at least
K20D super
KxD
K30D
Kx000D
Especially the latter will be a major disspointment as everybody wants at least one of the more advanced features on the "low specced" body and missing anyone of those (like SR, sealing, programme mode, green button) will cause many "doom, it's a failure before launch" post. Even the reviewers will not comment of what it can do but only on what it can't.
While the new camera probably is aimed at the masses, to start getting aquainted with dslr photography, "we"seem to expect a fully pro-like but downspecced camera, to be used as a back up by us, and not for beginners.
So maybe, just maybe, Pentax plays is smart and forgets about the "basic dslr"idea.
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Oh, I forgot, I mentioned three expected models. There are hints that more is expected by us posters:
The 645D (altough probably skipped in favour of 67IID)
And a new line , the Lx0D, or Mx0D.
Basically, if Pentax comes with less than 3 dslr bodies, I expect a surge in negative posts