I would hazard a guess that the majority of slr buyers do not consult any forums & base their purchase purely on what the salesman tells them, it works for Currys & Jessops etc. Just because forum members are aware of the going on of a particular company does not mean the rest of population do.

In my local Currys & Jessops they have k-r's in stock, at the weekend I was in Manchester, Jessops there had k-r in stock, as did Jessops in Sheffield last week.

I have invested a lot of money into Pentax, I am not worried about the future. If it all goes belly up & eventually my camera stops working or something substantially better comes along then I will worry about it.

Until then I will continue to be a photographer who uses Pentax.... As will, I should think, most of the people in this forum...

Although the k-r has been discontinued we don't know what the stock situation is. Maybe production has recently stopped or maybe production has stopped due to the floods & lack of parts.

Yes didn't think of the longer product cycle of FF bodies. If Nokons D700 replacement is going to be 36mp then that is getting into 645D territory.

I still think the potential market for Pentax is just to small, I would like to be proved wrong. I think the current strategy of aiming for the WR rugged bodies has worked well into a niche market.

What was interesting was the actresses knew exactly how to pose, how to make eye contact with all the cameras & stayed 'on set' for more than a couple of seconds.

The footballers where literally running past.

It was just another job lol, there where a lot of paps there. How they do this kind of work day in day out I don't know, I found it a little soul destroying to be honest, what makes it worse is that my flickr stream got over 3000 hits today compared to approx 800 - 1500 when gig shots go up...

A 24 megapixel full frame camera would be pointless, the processing speed & memory required to process & store images let alone the battery power would not make this camera feasible.

The 1D & D3s of this world have been successful because they reduced the pixel count which enabled speed. Being able to shoot 12 frames a second & then view those images almost instantly is more likely to get pros on board than a 24 megapixel full frame body.

Most pro images are used at a frame size of 3000 x 2000 pixels for newsprint use, for web use this is usually reduced to 600 pixels, so why would a pro want a 24 megapixel body. If you start talking about advertising or large poster use then the 645D fills this market.

I have done some research & here are the market share for 2010 from here

http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2011/04/canon-destroyed-nikon-in-2010-dslr-marke...

Canon 44.5%
Nikon 29.8%
Sony 11.9%
Olympus 5.1%
Pentax, Panasonic, Samsung, Sigma, etc 8.7%

As Olympus got 5.1% it would be fair to say that Pentax market share is possibly less than Panasonic so I would guess 3% for Pentax which I believe to be generous.

I couldn't find total sales for DSLR for 2010 but for 2009 it was 9,687,000 units so assuming sales stayed roughly the same Pentax sold 290,000 DSLR cameras in 2010. Pentax best selling dslr in 2010 was the k-x.

So potentially a full frame bodied camera would have very limited marketability, to compete with the D700 at £1700.00 the price would have to be around that figure, I just cannot see how Pentax can make a success with a full frame body, that potentially has sales of just a couple of 1000 units???

Will you be allowed to use flash in the church during the ceremony???

I wouldnt hesitate to recommend the Metz range though...

Chris A ithink you are making this more difficult than it actually is.

A has something for sale, posts it in classifieds

people respond by offering price or to buy at that price

Simple really....

Did my first red carpet tonight, noy was it cold, dull & boring, seemed to take ages between arrivals, stood outside in the rain brrrr freezing... Many players stopped for 2 seconds max, so not much pressure to get the shot Trying to get them to look at you was also difficult as there where approx 35 other photographers also shouting and fighting for position...

Here goes...

First some Coronation Street people..







Some footballers

Plus higher insurance premiums for years to come. Hopefully will get a quote tomorrow.

Insurance will repair or replace whichever is cheapest...