Leonard wrote:


>I too think that was a red herring.  I suspect that Phillips wants more for
>the 6MP CCD than Pemtax is willing to pay. When you can buy a 5MP camera for
>less that $2KUS, you aren't going to sell many 6MP cameras for $7KUS.
>If Phillips drops the price on the 6MP CCD, I wouldn't be surprised to learn
>that the MZ-D (perhaps with a label) is on the schedule again. I'd pay $2KUS
>for a nice 5MP Pentax digital body.  I think there's a market for one.



My Pentax rep told me that the reason for the shelving of the MZ-D was that 
it was getting too expensive to be viable in the marketplace. I was told 
that there was not manufacturing problems with the chip (as rumors say) and 
that other digital products use the chip.


P�l
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