that hd4 40 was pretty desperate at 13000$ but at 20000$ it is just ....strange....
i don't care how much they will push the file....shoot it at 1600, and just use the sliders for some more noise and gunk....none of these CCDs are usable over 400 does not matter if it is hasselblad, leaf, phase or sinar.....or leica!
the whole countdown thing is a little sad as well....everybody pretty much knew what was coming and the only surprise is the price.....
i don't get it: try and put out H4 30, 33x44 sensor, 30mpix, hokus, phocus, schnockus and locus, who cares about 1600, everybody already has a canon/nikon....make it shoot fast, easy and clean files at 100 and 200......under 10000$ incl. lens....i still would not buy it, but someone who needs that extra quality might.....but then again...they are better off with the top of the line hass/phase/whatever anyway....
totally unrelated...but not really...olympus comes out with their new pen.....they put in a flash, fix the focus (that would be called listening to what the market wants), still looks great and drop the price by 25%......unrelated because no DMF company seems to be able to do anything like that....