In plain English.....
Benjikan, told us what he had for lunch.
Everything else boils down to "Iknow something you don't know!!! Na-na-na-nanaaaa!"
All we can do is giggle and guess and wait.
Thank you for wetting our appetites Ben!
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there was supposed to be an 18 mp kodak sensor for the 645d some time ago....maybe that found it's way into the new pentax slr....
I hear kodak is looking into some new (non-bayer) sensor algorythims to get exceptionally low noise images at high iso's....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
And here I thought Gopher was Bill Murray's nemisis in Caddyshack....

Vic, apologies for causing confusion.
If the samsung works (and it appears as though it does) and costs less...no brainer.
If there were any corners cut, materialwise, I doubt an amature would ever abuse it enough to find out.
Some people will pay extra for the Pentax name, and hope the're getting more durability. truth is I don't know for sure, which is why I spent the extra money.

the cars do bear more than a passing resemblence.
I had a couple omnis, my best friend had a rabbit. The engines were swappable.
at one point I had a 2.2 l supercharged engine in my car and called it the "Lil' Dodge Ominous".
but I see there's more to the cars history than I knew about in the Wiki!

point is moot for me.
yesterday I checked two shops, and found:
k100's (5 at least)
k10's (4)
pentax flashes (both models)
16-45's (at least 5)
70mm ltd (3)
40mm ltd (1)
50mm macro (1)

3 used 28 mm f2 af's ($70,00 each)

no samsung equivelents.

sorry I only looked for stuff I'm looking to buy this summer.
golfdeisel, I'm refering to north american models from Dodge and Plymouth. American made vw rabbits mid eighties.

lot's of companies suorce out parts from other companies/countries.
I'ts even concievable that samsung could be BETTER built than pentax.

I can't afford to find out in the middle of a customers Wedding, either way. There's other places in my business where I can cut costs.

When it comes to work tools, stick with what you know, and buy the best you can afford.

there's two ways to find out.
A) buy one of each and gut'em.
B) watch samsungs forums, and compare the amount/type of complaints, thier equipment gets over a 5 year span, and calculate the percentages of problems, and durability of thier products, compare to pentaxes.

rabbits, porcupines, roasting pans, hehehe
sound like a redneck dinner party!!!

you know, there are ways to cut costs (usually cheaper components) and maintain the same specs on paper....
Ever compare an old volkswagon rabbit to a dodge omni/plymouth horizon?
incredible difference in build quality from the same design/tooling.

I remember having to replace my oilpan on my omni with a pan from a rabbit, after hitting a porcupine...the quills went throough the pan. The omni,'s pan had 8 bolts and felt like a tinfoil roasting pan, the rabbits pan felt like a stainless steel cooking pot, and had sixteen bolts (eight of which lined up perfectly with the omni's engine block (which co-incedentlty had "made in germany" stamped in it.).