Well, to be fair, there were a lot of Nikon users who switched to Canon when Canon began beating Nikon to the punch on too many technologies: USM, IS, and then the leapfrogging DSLR race. I don't think Nikon can count on as much user loyalty now that more and more people are going digital.
chris On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Alan Chan wrote: > Except no matter how much complaints there are, Nikon fans still stick with > Nikon no matter what. Many people worship "NIKON", don't think Pentax can > afford that. > > regards, > Alan Chan > > >Sure there is. Just look at the direction Nikon is taking, and look at > >how Nikon users felt when the first G lenses came out. They started out > >by releasing a very few low-end lenses with limited compatibility: their > >28-80, 28-100 and 70-300. No big deal, right? Just a few bottom-of-the > >line lenses to bring the price of their low-end kits down, right? Wrong. > >Now more and more of their high-end lenses are appearing without aperture > >rings; first the 24-85mm AF-S, and now the AF-S VR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF. > >Claiming that it is "absurd" to worry about Pentax doing the same thing is > >sticking your head in the sand. Nothing's guaranteed, but it's very > >possible. > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > >
