--- P�l_Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom wrote: > > "But > realistically, Pentax's *ist is simply not realistic > enough to compete with > Canon or idealistic enough to capture one's > imagination." >
Tom, Fortunately, that is *not* my view on this matter. How is the Pentax's ZX series compete realistically with the Canon's stuff? And yet, the ZX series are great sellers and compete very well with the Canons as well as the Nikons in the consumer line of stuff. Pros already had their minds on a Canon or a Nikon and it is such a small percentage of the market share that stealing a little from the two by Pentax just does not make sense. The final judgement is really not only in the design and implementation of the camera, but is with the price and the quality of pictures it puts out. Normal consumers are not stupid enough not to know. They are smarter and more demanding than you think. So.. Why does Pentax want to put out both the film *ist and the digital *ist? My thoughts.. Possibly because, there is going to be a mass exodus of compact users (a lot) who are looking to upgrade their old IQZooms or IQZoom 105s genre that are currently unimpressed with the small and super slow lens zoom compacts. They also want to preserve the compactness of their old IQZooms series. IQZoom or the Zoom 70 and the 70x, 70 Milano (which is basically a special 70x edition), 90 and 105s are great little cameras and Pentax did sell a ton of them in the past. The photos from them were just superb. I personally get a lot of these inquiries from my clients who has these cameras as to when Pentax is going to put out something like this! So far, Pentax is doing the general market that service.. These *ist cameras with the FAJ lenses provide the ideal upgrade path for these people. For film fans, the *ist with a 28-80 FAJ serves very nicely as a compact and easy to use camera with no aperature ring to muddle around. Just like an IQZoom. For digital fans or first digital tryouts, the digital *ist with a 28-80 FAJ serves that market very nicely as well.. Please keep in mind that it would be suicide for Pentax to have to compete with Canon and Nikon at the very same level. I think Pentax should serve a niche market where there is no competition for their cameras if they hope to make money at all. I hope with the *ist, they are doing just that.. Rick... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
