All's quiet on the *ist front

[Robert Soames Wetmore]

It is a tribute to the importance of digital in Pentax's future that so 
little has been said on the list about the *ist (non-D, to be precise).  
Here we have a radically new camera design which is trickling out to 
magazines (how many read Herb Keppler's assessment?) and even into select 
stores.  Yet, so little discussion about it...

Even the astonishing news about the new SAFOX VIII has been discussed very 
little (which is the more surprising since I suppose it will feature in the 
D version as well).

What gives - no interest in film bodies?  Admittedly it will be positioned 
as a lower-middle class (like me!) item, but is anyone else happy to see 
Pentax at the technological lead in a price point for the first time since 
the PZ-1p?  Anyone planning on getting one?  Anyone eager for news of what 
is next in the series (such as a true PZ-1p successor and Maxxum 7 killer)?

Anyhow, I was thinking the *ist + 43/1.9 would make a neat little package.

Rob

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