Originally posted by deejjjaaaa aren't all shutters in Pentax from 3rd parties anyways are they ? something from Copal... like all glass comes from 2-3 companies (hoya, schott, etc)
Pentax, Konica and Mamya colaborated on a new generation of shutters in the late 50's early 60's, which somehow led to the first Copal square I shutter in 1961. Initially these three companies had monopoly on the use of the copal shutters, allthough the Nikon F has the Copal square I because it was built by Mamaya. Copal doesn't have monopoly, but they have kept on dominating the market and made shutters for basically every brand (besides the original three companies: Nikon, Yashica, Leica, Canon, Minolta, Sigma, Ricoh, Exacta, Cosina...
Originally posted by Ratmagiclady (on my observation that they couldn't likely fit all that new stuff in basically a K20d style body)
I surely do, myself. I was kind of hoping Pentax would keep the K20 chassis for something, myself.
But. If you have this rumored 'GX30' which is almost but not quite the same size as the GX20, there's a problem: this rumor claims they've basically taken a lot of the K-7, but kept the body of the GX-20, with a bigger battery, put in a bigger shutter unit to get that synch speed, added the radio and such for wifi, antennas for GPS, shoehorned in an extra SD card and added what'd probably have to be that funky prism without making the body deeper, *and* making it a hair less tall...
Then to top it all off, put in a huge articulating screen without increasing the thickness of the body.
*All that* just doesn't add up, to me. If Samsung comes up with a nice alternative, that's great, but I wouldn't trust the rumor.
Originally posted by Ratmagiclady I think, Matt, that whoever fabricated this rumor wanted to imply Samsung 'double-crossed' Pentax by trumping them with a K30 design or something.
But especially since this rumor mysteriously-appeared right when the K-7's hitting the market, I think it's more likely we're looking at a little disinformation campaign to try and make people keep waiting for things that won't happen.
While it's quite possible that Pentax handed Samsung one of their design concepts, I just don't think one can get over the fact that the dimensions don't add up.
I tend to agree. How do they get all this in the same body as K20D? Howcome Pentax let Samsung use so much from the K10D/K20D and the K-7 to a purely Samsung model. Was that the price to be allowed to use the same upgraded K20D sensor in the K-7 as in the NX? Pretty high price I would think. It is far more likely that this is either a fake, or a leak on the Samsung version of a Pentax K30D.
Originally posted by deadwolfbones I really don't get all the "I don't want a camera with SAMSUNG written on it!!" comments, but aside from that, I don't really see this camera being true, unless it marks the end of Samsung and Pentax's partnership.
I don't mind the name Samsung itself, but it worries me if there would be a Samsung GX30 instead of a Pentax K30(D) since the Samsung cameras have had very hard to sell on most markets.
Originally posted by Buddha Jones Why won't the GX30 get rebadged as the K30, since Pentax has said from the beginning that the K-7 was not meant to be its replacement.
I believe we will see both a GX30 and K30 (or with a different name since Pentax seams to be a bit more creative about the name).