Rick Diaz wrote:
--- Peter Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:"Let's hope the price of D100 & D60 won't be dropping so fast it killed the Pentax again. :("Peter, at current retail prices, only the stores are making money. Manufacturers like Canon, Nikon and what not loose money on DSLR.
Do you have any data to back this up? It's a pretty bold statement that folks are putting this much R&D into a product line and not making a profit. I'm sure Canon made something on the $8k I just gave them. What about the cost of not capturing market share?
I disagree that it was just the lousy chip. PeopleYes they do. They have very different curves, different noise levels, different readout noise levels, different amps, etc. etc. just download a data sheet. CCDs are a very analog device and have a huge impact on image quality.
here have to start thinking beyond the mist of
misinformation that the photographic industries put
out and stop treating the CCD chip like film. Different CCD chips don't behave like a Kodak
Kodachrome 25, or a Fuji Provia or even a Fuji Velvia.
I'd argue that none of these high res, (near) full frame chips are a commodity. They're still have very low yeilds.
Pentax needs to produce an innovative product to
command pricing power. What's killing Pentax now is
the 35mm market. It is priced like a commodity. Many
DSLR cameras on the market are priced almost like
commodities. Look at how they advertise exclusively
on the chip they use, when in fact, the chip is
actually a commodity. So they commoditized their own
product and hence, they loose money.
R
