pentax k20d and k200d announced!
The official announcement is in! K20d and k200d are here
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08012312pentaxk20dhandson.asp
seems like a nice upgrade to the k10, although not compelling enough to make me switch. The new sensor does look interesting though, especially if iso6400 is useable.
Frankly though I think pentax needs to do better. As the market becomes increasingly competitive, and price points keep getting driven down, they need to release something to “run with the big boys” or risk going the way of KM - great cameras, great lenses, but just too little too late to keep up with the market. I really hope pentax dosn’t fall into that trap! (and as an ex-KMer I really don’t want to switch systems again!)
Benjikan, over at pentaxfourms.com has been hinting for months that there would be a new camera that would blow us all away, and frankly this isn’t it… One can only hope that this is just the teaser, release at the beginning to whet the appetite for the big announcement
(this new sensor in a 1d or dx level body would qualify!)
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January 24th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I agree. If only they had improved the AF system and PTTL as they did with the sensor…