5D B&H $1,999 w/ free delivery
5D Mark II $2,699 w/free delivery
D700 $2,319 w/free delivery and sitting in my B&H shopping cart....
taunting me, tempting me....
So why the $3,000 price point?
I agree its 2009 now. The longer Pentax waits the lower the admission price for prosumer full frame goes.
Once I added two brand new 5D in 2008:
$2050 & $1,750
I lost interest in waiting for Pentax to roadmap up some future full frame K Mount dslr talking points.
Whats my Full frame Fantasy?
Before end of this year (2009) I'll likely buy a D700 and 14-24mm 2.8 and then do a head to head comparision between this Nikon Combo and my 5D and 16-35mm 2.8 L II and tamron eos 14mm 2.8. Hopefully the Tamron Eos will prove redundant and I can recoup some bucks from it.
In the meantime when I want to shoot some old K Mount glass I'll grab my K20D. It is an exceptional camera with all my old glass inhand. I wish my 5D had some of its many cool features and weathersealing. I think alot of Pentaxians are overlooking K20D. It is a very nice camera, one I have no problem calling Pentax' Flagship
With Pentax taking just 1.6% of Japan's dslr market share in 2008 it should
"Be Interesting" in 2009 to see what rolls out.
PMA is March 3rd 2009 & all will be revealed, or at least roadmapped:
Just 60 Days Away
Originally posted by nostatic Seems there is a consistent call (whine?) for:
better AF
more FPS
higher clean ISO
and maybe FF
So...let's say Pentax grants your wish and builds you this camera (the K30d). How much are you willing to pay for it. Seriously. Tomorrow. What dollar figure will you plunk down for such a beast assuming it is the real deal? And no "gee, if I won the lottery." Serious buyers.
And if you wouldn't buy it for a reasonable price (consider that the competition is all around $3K for that), do you still want them to build it?