Perhaps they expect in two years from now to be in another price range with a DSLR then $1350.
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 18:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I seem to recall reading a post recently that said that Pentax expects its > DSLRs to outsell its film SLRs in two years. > > Are Pentax's film camera sales that bad? I find it hard to believe that > a product that is currently selling for $1350 or thereabouts is going to > outsell a product that is going for less than $350. Where are people > going to come up with that spare $1000? > > The film N80 is likewise $1000 cheaper than the digital D100 that is > based on it, and there are several Nikon models below that, in the $300 > range. Perhaps people who are currently buying N70s for roughly $300 are > not going to buy D70s for $1000 but will buy a $300 coolpix digital P&S > instead (that's cheaper than a lot of coolpixes...) > If people were willing to spend $1000 for SLRs, why is there so much > effort put into capturing the $250 and $300 segment of the market? > I don't see everyone toting MZ-Ss, or even Nikon F100 or Canon EOS-3s > (which can run rings around a D70 in almost every way). > > Last I looked, $300 didn't get you a very impressive digital P&S. > The models that tempted me were more like $500, which could have gotten > me a second LX in good shape instead. > > Pop photo's "report from Japan" suggested that most manufacturers expected > digital camera and film camera sales to stabilize. Digital SLRs are still > trickling down to the lower rungs of pros who have much stronger economic > and functional reasons to pay for them than most people, and this may > account for the continued strong DSLR sales. > > DJE > > -- Frits Wüthrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
