> -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Diaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 8:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Digital Market Share was (Re: ChDImage about Pentax and > PMA) > > > --- "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isnt it odd that Sigma, primarily a third rate ( > > oops > > I mean third party )lens company, comes out with a > > digital SLR > > before Pentax and Minolta? Wouldnt be even more odd > > if Fuji (who hasnt made SLRs in 15 yrs) or Sony ( > > NEVER > > made SLRs) beats Pentax to market with a DSLR??? > > JCO > > > > > > What is the point of this exercise? > > Is it to market a DSLR, which currently holds no > standard like the true and tried 35mm sibling? And > what is the print standard available now to support a > DSLR market? Which memory card standards are > prevalent?
The digital imaging technology is too young for a "fixed" standard now. Look what happened with audio CDs. They used 16 bit and 44Khz sampling because thats all they could process and fit on a disc in 1980. I have hundreds of LPS (analog) that sound far better than even the finest CDs and were still stuck with CDs only for most new music 20 years later. Theyve developed DVD-Audio and SACD to solve the problem, but very few titles available... A new DSLR "standard" might also mean trashing our entire collections of pentax glass.... Not an appealing thought to me at all. JCO
