Originally posted by Mistral75 £1,099 according to Nokishita Camera, which is €1,279 and US$1,145.
(remember, EU prices include ca. 20% VAT)
How solid is this? If true, I think Ricoh needs to be careful not to price themselves out of the market. This is well above the XT-20 ($900), above the D7200 ($1000), and about equal with the (IMHO overpriced) 80d ($1100). It's a (rumored) launch price though, so street might differ I guess.
Originally posted by FantasticMrFox I am afraid this will be the K3 II successor
Well, what I'm saying is I think it's the new top-end APS-C body, but it's possibly not the
next-generation top-end APS-C body. To be confirmed, but if it's still based on the K-3 AF and metering modules for example, you could argue this is a redesign of the K-3 innards with a smaller battery and some control tweaks. In an R&D sense, this would not be a huge effort to produce. If that's true, I think near the end of 2017, we could still see a next-gen top-end APS-C camera with the K-1's AF module ported down, and LI90 and...