> Perhaps they do only need to introduce one, Vic -- but that's not where I
was
> going with my comment. Mine was in response to the implication that Pentax
> was "moving more toward DSLRs and away from digital P&S cameras."
> To me, if a company is concentrating on SLRs and "moving away from" P&S
> cameras, they'd probably be producing a few different kinds of SLRs, and
the
> number and variety of P&S models would be diminishing. But no! Pentax has
> introduced ONE DSLR. Admittedly, it was introduced recently, and
admittedly it
> has had good press and seems popular with the folks who bought it but
still
> it's only one. In the time since the introduction of the *istD, how many
Optio
> models have they introduced? They seem to announce a couple more every
month!
>
> ERN
It's the Optio sales that are funding the R&D into DSLR's
Bill
