Re: Digital vs Film: Battle is over - digital has already won

[Bruce Rubenstein]

The Canon Rebel (EOS 1000) was introduced in Oct. 1990 (http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/f_camera.html). This was about 5 years before the MZ-5 was introduced. Low cost SLRs were a response to P&S cameras that were first introduced in the early 80's. Fabricating history is a little silly when it's so easy to do research.

BR

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

This is true. In fact, it was Pentax that created the frenzy to more
affordable SLRs (at least in Japan) when they introduced MZ series (MZ-5 to
be exact). A lot of people who were content with P&S suddenly realized that
SLRs were affordable (and probably many did not even know what SLR really
meant and what it could do). Canon Rebel and Minolta Alpha Sweet etc were
enormously benefited from this. Nikon jumped on this frenzy too by F60 and
U etc.