I've bought new when it suited me, so speak for yourself. If anyone made
something I actually wanted new I'd certainly buy it.
At 01:30 PM 1/31/2003 -0500, you wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Steve Desjardins wrote:
> This is the problem, however. Many complain about the MZ-S precisely
> because it didn't have all of the "features". I don't think that any
The people who cry about flagship this and flagship that.. There's never
going to be a PZ-1pII to compete with the EOS-1v or F5. If there was, no
one would buy it. Why bother? "Pros" shoot Canon. You can't take it away
from them, so why even bother trying?
Its not about loading the camera down with features, that's not what I was
trying to say.. that's a fool's game, and one Pentax will lose. WEll, will
continue to lose. That's why Pentax will never be top of the heap of the
DSLR pile, and why even bother giving us the same stupid camera as
everyone else just with a K mount on it?
That's dumb. Take advantage of your unique market spot: Make clever, retro
cameras that capitalize on that K1000 workhorse attitude, but make them
with the features that people DO need. Quiet. Ergonomic. A middle ground
autowinder. Retro layout. Etc.
If I need a digital camera, I'm buying a Canon EOS-1d. Why wouldn't I? It
would be downright STUPID not to, unless I have that sizable of a lens
collection. And let's be honest, there's no market there.. not many people
do. If I want a robocamera that does everything at 10 fps with 1000 focus
points and whatever, I'm buying a Canon or a Nikon there, too.
There's no need to pursue that market. Its lost, it won;'t be reclaimed.
So, you can go ahead and try and reclaim market share, or accept your
niche and give us something different and give the rest of the established
photo world a reason to change TO Pentax rather than FROM Pentax.
> camera company could make a profit from the folks on this list
No one here buys anything new. We're about the worst possible focus group
you could have.
> precisely because of the diversity of tastes. Remember, Pentax may not
> be a major SLR player, but they make a ton o' money off the P&S market.
So, keep making your PnS cameras. And your digital PnS. No reason to
change that, the current PnS line and the current SLR line have no
commonalities, anyway.
> And they are a business, after all.
Exactly... so why offer the exact same SLR and DSLR camera as anyone else
when no one is going to want to change TO your system.. there's better
ones already made, and being generations behind those systems, you won't
catch up.
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