Re: All Is Right In The Pentax World!

[Shaun Canning]

Who cares what the bloody thing looks like...just be greatful that 
Pentax are in the race, if you don't like what it looks like, that's OK 
Pal, but it really doesn't matter what the damn thing looks like...it's 
what it will do. If you don't like the look of it...buy Nikon or Canon 
and be done with it. It is really unfair to lambast something before 
anyone has even held one. I, for one, am confident that this thing will 
be a nicely sorted little unit by the time it hits the market. I will 
buy one, maybe not in the first few weeks, but certainly some time this 
year. The fact that there is a DSLR at all is something to rejoice 
about, as it just saved as all gazillions of (insert your currency here) 
changing bloody lenses and accessories...

Let's wait and see how thongs pan out....shall we?

Cheers

Shaun

P�l Jensen wrote:
Dick wrote:



After reading the ist D threads over the last couple of days it looks now 
like the honeymoon is over, the bitching & moaning has begun in 
earnest.  PDML negative imagination is running amuck and more than a few of 
us, who previously were pleading for Pentax to release the new DSLR, now 
have the ist D lying dead in a pile of ashes before too long.  All of this 
based on a couple of photos of a prototype camera that no one has even 
handled.  Yes sir, all is right in the Pentax world!


I didn't plea for a Pentax DSLR. I believe they should release one when they had a sufficiently original product. They didn't. Who is going to buy the *ist D?

Well, for one the Pentax users who doesn't mind a Pentax looking like a Nikon would probably bite. Fine.
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 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? 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. The Optio S is much more of a conversation stopper. 
The fact that you may want dedicated lenses undermines the *ist D as viable alternative also for Pentax users. 

P�l

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Shaun Canning                                                           
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