On 03.2.11 0:10 PM, "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi! > >> KT> Minolta has already been selling the cameras of the similar concept "Alpha >> KT> Sweet II", Canon "EOS Kiss III L" and Pentax "MZ-L". All these cameras >> are >> KT> competitively priced yet with various features and automations. > > Thank you very much <bg>. Now my ZX-L (same as MZ-L or MZ-6) is an > entry level sweet-n-kiss camera. I really thought it was more towards > (advanced) amateur level... Not that I care, but anyway... Hi Boris, I did not think it was a fair comparison too :-). But that's what the article said and I translated as it was. I am sure you said above with "tongue-in-cheek" but I think what happened was that the reporter made a simple price comparison and bundled all 3 together in the same price category. In the original article, these 3 models were mentioned with respective price, i.e., Minolta 94,000yen, EOS Kiss (Rebel) 92,000yen and MZ-L 93,000yen. These are all early 2002 prices and they are now more like 67,000yen. However, Pentax SLRs always being competitively priced, they should not have bundled the MZ-L in the same basket. It should have been more like MZ-60 and MZ-30 etc. But consumers who intend to buy these cameras are attracted to the price range and guess which one they are likely to pick....? BTW, I do not know much about EOS Kiss or Minolta Alpha Sweet, but I do remember that when MZ-5 came out, Pentax made a big deal out of its compactness and claimed the world's smallest SLR (or something along that line). Soon after that, Alpha Sweet, then EOS Kiss went into the size war and came up with the smaller versions, and Pentax quietly removed their claim. I do not know which one is the smallest today but MZ-5 did induce the size war which made Sweet'n Kiss cameras really smaller. Today, MZ series is probably the largest of the three (I do not know for sure). And even in the feature area, C/M made a big stride. These Sweet'n Kiss cameras look more than just a toy today. And Canon for sure is going to announce the digital cousin of Kiss/rebel in the PMA. That might be a dynamite, and I am sure Pentax know whom they will be contending with. For this reason too, I believe Pentax is coming up with a brand new chassis/models to compete with these two Film and digital). I do not know about MZ-L but MZ-n (or nn) series certainly saw its heyday (But I love my MZ-3 though). Cheers, Ken
