Originally posted by Rondec We'll see. I have a feeling that it will have to come down a couple hundred to really move any units to speak of. The reality of the market place is that the D7200 is out there selling for 996 and K3 II is still on the market for 830.
Maybe image quality and auto focus speed are going to be phenomenal, but otherwise, it feels like a slightly crippled but still quite expensive APS-C camera.
Yes, there are a lot of deals around over here in the UK especially when one includes "factory refurb" items, which Nikon seems to love as a way of moving excess stock at reduced prices (albeit with a reduced warranty).
The lower-power battery is the main issue for me. I think it has imposed too many limitations. I'm sure things would be fine for a few months but I suspect that over, say, three years of ownership I would find the battery issue a limiting and increasingly annoying factor in terms of how the camera works and what it can really do. Not a question of whether the battery runs out - just carry a spare - but what a modest current reserve means for the electronics. In a similar way, what eventually turned me off the K-01 even though I had a lot of fun with it was that it was soooo slow. The electronics just weren't powerful enough. For me, a full-on camera at 1800 or more would be a better buy over four or five years than this less costly camera is over two or three. Some of the specs don't look for the long haul either (shutter, splash-proof rather than WR, etc.).