> Well, for one the Pentax users who doesn't mind a Pentax looking like a Nikon > would probably bite. Fine.
I think you're overreacting in your contention that the *ist D "looks like a Nikon." You could just as easily say that an ZX-7 looks like an N65, or that a PZ-1p looks like an EOS-1. Many cameras look somewhat similar. I don't think the *ist D is a "copy" of the Nikon in any way. There are a few superficial resemblances. So what? What were you expecting? A camera shaped like a high-heeled shoe, or a loaf of bread? > Would Nikon owners bite? Unfortunately not, as buying a Pentax that looks like > a Nikon, even if it is smaller, makes no sense. Likewise for Canon users. > How about Minolta owners? Why would they buy a Nikon lookalike when they can > get the real thing Since when is Nikon "the real thing"? > or even a Canon with the associated boosted image, IS > lenses, USM and huge lenses line-up, not to mention upgrade paths and huge > used market? And this differs from the situation with Pentax 35mm products _how_? > Don't think so. Of course the same goes for every other brand of > cameras. Nikon and Canon are better proposition because what they offer is > more complete and what Pentax offers aren't distinguished enough to alter this > fact. > How about thgose who want a camera as jewellery? Sorry but the *ist D looks > like an entry level Nikon so its status and show off effect is zero. You don't know that. Relative size can have an immediate visual impression, and the *ist D's measurements are appreciably less than those of, say, the 10D. So far we don't know what the *ist D looks like. No one has seen it yet. No one has held it yet. _You_ haven't seen it yet. _You_ haven't held it yet. SO HOLD YER HORSES! > The Optio > S is much more of a conversation stopper. So buy yourself an Optio S, P�l. I'm interested in TAKING PICTURES, not "stopping conversations." > The fact that you may want dedicated lenses undermines the *ist D as viable > alternative also for Pentax users. Huh? It does? In what possible way? The *ist D supports K mount. Every K mount lens you want to use can be used on it. In what way would the introduction of a few lenses for the DSLR compromise your ability to use any and all of your current 35mm lenses on the *ist D? I think this last comment exposes the fact that you're not being "realistic." (Why is it that all pessimists insist that they are just being "realistic"?) You're acting like a jilted lover! --Mike
