Mike Johnston posted a message that began with this quote and comment: > > 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?
I agree. Nikon people were falling all over themselves a couple of years ago to drool over a camera (F100) that looked like a PZ-1(p). OK, OK, bad example -- being Nikon people, none of them had ever heard of a PZ-1(p). What does a Pentax look like? Personally, I find the pictures of the *istD remind me of the ZX-L. The MZ-6/ZX-L gets a lot of good press and commentary, here and elsewhere. People are buying it, apparently. If it's selling well, looking the way it does, what's the problem with the *ist D?
