Originally posted by GoldenWreckedAngle Hate to be a wet blanket but so far it's just a major upgrade for Pentax, not the industry. I'm probably missing something but the lens correction thing, reduced size, and the expectation of a bargain price for the features, are the only things I've seen so far that can't be had somewhere else already... yet.
Nikon has CA Correction, at least.
Originally posted by rparmar And it's expensive. Together with all the lens price increases it might almost seem that Pentax wants to be the next Nikon, and not the Pentax we knew and loved.
Sure — they've pretty much said as much. They're not interested in being the mass-market brand; they want to be a luxury niche product. Of course, that's a bit hard to do without causing hardship on the current base — us. It remains to see how it goes.
I really love my K10D, though. It's much, much nicer to use than the Canon cameras I've borrowed. (Various Rebels and the 10D, 20D, 40D — it's easy to find friends with Canon cameras!) Basically, it gets just about everything right, and the 90% of the things that bother me are improved in the K20D or rumored to be improved in the K-7. So that's cool with me.
As long as Pentax is the only company making lenses like those in the Limited series, and as long as they keep producing nice solid camera bodies to go with them, I'm still in.
If they've priced it so the street price in a few months is still above $1000, that just means I'll have to plan to keep it for 3-4 years until the next upgrade (instead of 2 this time around).