Originally posted by JPT The February issue of Nippon Camera came out yesterday and it has a 4-page article about the K-1 II, which is basically a report of the same event that Albert attended.
Mostly it covers the same ground as we've seen before, but three things struck me as important.
- The expected price is mentioned as 200,000 yen, which is significantly less than some of the more alarming projections. I fact it less than the K-1 II sells for (232,650 currently, a few years after release).
- Availability is mentioned as "aiming for late February", which I think is just to say Ricoh is targeting CP+
- The other interesting thing for me was actually comparative photos of the viewfinder size of the K-3 III, K-1 II and K-3 II. The K-3 III look exactly the same size as the K-1 II and the writer was saying it caused the visitors to to a double-take and check they weren't looking at a full frame camera.
Thanks for the info!
So, correlating, it comes out to a MRSP of $1600 (before taxes, yadda yadda) in the US, and around 1800€ in Germany. That would be well within reasonable, and like @bigmackcam said, a competitive price considering the specs.
The OVF of the next FF is gonna be a religious experience, I'm sure of it
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Originally posted by MJKoski So, K-1 sized crop body. Price about the ~same. Next K-1 will heavily overlap this one when used in crop mode.
Next FF will be physically larger, heavier and have lower FPS than the K-3iii even in crop mode, unless you want them to make a 6k€ camera. Horses for courses.