Originally posted by ogl 1. New camera with crop-sensor with 8-9 fps (higher specs than K-7).
Second half of 2010.
P.S. K-7 goes to lower $900-1000.
2. 645D will be launched on spring, 2010. Very good featured. Very good price.
3. FF camera with 5 new FF lenses will be announced close to the end of 2010.
No info about date of sales. Forecast - first part of 2011.
Sensor - two options
Not SONY.
4. Micro-APS system will announced too. Maybe it will be the camera like Leica X1 with 40 mm lens. Not clear.
Is it beyond Hoya's power?
Accomplishing all of it might be outside of Hoya's power, but even if only a few of these rumors come true Pentax will be in good shape. I think there is reason to be more optimistic for the future than we have been in awhile, but that's more of a gut feeling from what I've been reading lately.
1. This would be great. One way or the other I hope the K-7 gets lowed nicely into that Nikon D90/vacant Pentax K200D price slot within the next year. I think it will perform very well there through early to mid 2011.
2. Looks like this will come true as well. The price may make a huge difference in how successfully it performs.
3. This would also be great, even without the 5 new lenses (pretty ambitious unless they're just adapting old designs) Pentax could use this full frame camera to fill the $1,000-$2,000 price range.
4. An EVIL crop camera in addition to all of this? I'm not sure if I could see them pulling that off, especially considering how much Samsung is struggling to get a similar camera off the ground. Maybe either this or the full frame cam will actually materialize. Unless, of course, those rumors about Ricoh doing/cooperating on the development of this particular camera turn out to be true. Then it wouldn't be such a drain on Pentax's R&D.