Originally posted by kooks As i said, IMO for the first FF Pentax should not pass the $2000 ( including top features ) so the camera will be VERY VERY VERYYY attractive
I suspect Pentax would lose too much money if they offered FF at that price point. There are obviously Pentaxians so besotted with FF that they would pay more for Pentax FF than $2,000. Why shouldn't Pentax take advantage of that? They may have to in order to avoid big losses. I see Pentax FF having an MRSP of $2,500+. Think of the price as an early adapter tax. Over time, the price will fall to the low 2,000s. Maybe we'll see close-out prices under $2,000.
I have no great desire for an FF camera, as I believe the advantages of FF have tended to by over-played and exaggerated by the FF crowd. In any case, I'm far more into lenses than cameras; and APS-C cameras are right now a better fit for the lenses I currently have. If, however, my financial situation were to dramatically improve I might consider the option of getting an FF camera, but only if Pentax produced the sort of glass that fits my own shooting style. Actually, all I would need would be a high-end slow standard zoom, something like the Canon 24-105 f4 L. I have serious doubts as to whether Pentax will ever make such a lens. They won't have a large enough user-base to justify producing a lens of that type. Short of such a lens (or DFA limited zoom glass), FF would not fit my needs, even if I could afford it. I have no interest in dragging around big, heavy f2.8 standard FF zooms.