Originally posted by NorthPentax I think all new Pentax dSLR models will look more or less like the current K-m.
May 21. we will have the K-7. I'm more curious what comes after the K-7 model.
Well, I suppose it really depends on if that new prism design I'm pretty convinced is in the K-7 gets applied to other models, (and if it works with a pentamirror, if that remains the thing in the smaller models.) ...but you might see that K-7 shape on more models.
I think there's been murmurings of a K20 update later in the year, and there's kind of a conspicuous gap in the K200 segment. The K-m's still pretty new, so I'd expect that shape to be around a while.
A couple guesses I might have is that we'll end up seeing either a K300d, or maybe the K20 body *becomes* the camera in that range. The way it looks to me, across the industry, such things as the K-M and other companies' four-digit bodies have become the new 'entry level' ...and the former entry-level a la the K200d, no longer has to do quite so much double-duty (for beginners who want scene modes and an uninitmidating number of controls, plus those more serious about photography who just plain can't afford the fancier models.) If they can afford to sell K20ds for like seven hundred bucks and change *now,* why not keep doing that and call it the mid-range? They're still kicking butt for the price point.
Another possibility I could see is they put the K20d's sensor in essentially something like the K200d, and maybe make the K20d chassis into something else that still wants to be a little bigger.