New Pentax Digital SLR

I've heard that a new Digital SLR from Pentax is to be launched very soon as a direct competitor to the Canon 300D - has anyone any info???

Are you also known as Ronnie, who posted an almost identical question in another part of the forum?

Got a reply from PENTAX.NL
The *istD is now discontinued.
A new model will apear by the end of this year.
It is to be named *istDS

*ist-D discontinued

I understood the new one was to be an entry level addition, not a replacement!

Matt

I rather doubt that Pentax-NL is correct, for three reasons.

First, I haven't heard this anywhere else, and I subscribe to the PDML and read DPReview, both of which tend to latch onto new news pretty quickly.

Second, it doesn't make sense from a business point of view to replace the lone DSLR in the line with another lone DSLR. What Pentax needs is two or three different bodies with differing specs and different price points.

Third, I doubt they would leave it to Pentax-NL to bring this news to the world.

However, stranger things have happened.

No... the *ist D is not discontinued. The new model will as has been stated run along side the *ist D.