<fanfare> You know you've finally arrived at the PDML when your name's in the subject line!
I'd like to thank my agent, my mother, my wife, Pentax, Doug Brewer, all the wonderful peop................gurgle gurgle blibble blip blip sssssssssft. <back to reality> Interesting reading Mike. >If someone here buys a 6-mp Pentax "MZ-D" for $1,700 next summer, chances >are pretty good that in three years, a Pentax 8-mp DSLR, say, will be >available for $1,400. But that still won't necessarily mean that the "MZ-D" >buyer can't proceed to continue getting his or her money out of their 2003 >purchase. Exactly. It is an aquisition. A tangible thing. It can be used, hopefully creatively. Just as a film camera can. And it can be used longer than 6 months. Much longer. It's basically the same thing as a film SLR, except it has electronics instead of film. Still has a mirror that flips up. Still has all the gubbins that detect and control exposure. It's a light-tight box onto which you fix a lens. It will need servicing just like a film camera. Whether or not it has more to go wrong with it than a film camera is a moot point. Certainly it might be more expensive to fix....or will it? Time will tell. I intend to get mine serviced once a year. If I had a brand new LX I would get it serviced once a year. Both would do what I require them to: allow me to take and make photographs. Hands up: who will be looking 'very closely' at the Pentax DSLR (assume 6MP at less than 1500 bucks) in the following categories: 1/ Where do I pre-order? 2/ I'm 99 percent sure I want one. 3/ Need to see it first, see if I really want one. 4/ I'd love one but the only way i could afford is to sell my film gear and I don't want to commit to that. 5/ Nice, but no. 6/ Not in a month of Sundays. No prizes, just curious. Cot ____________________________________ Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ ____________________________________ Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at http://www.macads.co.uk/ ____________________________________
