Originally posted by Substitute They had to come up with something, now with an expected retail price of $20 000 body only,
That's actually affordable if you consider the pricing for the Hasselblad and new Leaf Aptus II models. The cost of the body will be the smallest part of the financial burden, where it will hurt more is getting the (somewhat small) assortment of primes for this sensor. For myself I ust need to figure out if this will be nicer to handle than the Leaf (by handling I mean working with it on a tripod), and how well it works tethered. I'm on the waiting list for the Leaf, but it'll be a while, I hope this cam is out by then to look at before I have to finally decide and pay out. The leaf shutter in the lens will be nice.
Scitex/Leaf made a digital back for large format cameras, just 10 years ago and it listed for $43,000 and that was without lenses or even a body. And that was only 3 or 4 MP (they interpolated the resolution via software trickery, so it sounded more impressive than this)
Originally posted by Substitute I just dunno if any Pentaxian could afford this!
A big reason for the delay or non-production of the 645D.
I read a Pentax interview about 7 or 8 months ago (wish I could remember which one) and he was talking about the postponement of the 645D. He said they were shocked and dismayed that a majority Pentax users & potential 645D customers were thinking that it would sell for less than $5,000, and he was thinking it would be miraculous if they could get a slimmed down model out for $10,000. That's when they were thinking maybe this model wouldn't have a chance.
Originally posted by Ole No shake reduction
That won't make a bit of difference for this market, unlike Full-Frame, this won't be competing against the other DSLRs.