Bruce Rubenstein wrote:
I didn't say it was a knock off and it doesn't matter if it's similar or not. It doesn't matter if it has the best interface know to humanity, because people don't start with user interfaces, or any other technical detail. A digital SLR, for the general population, is just an expensive electronic gadget. They want to buy from a company that they know makes "good" electronic gadgets, or a camera brand that has such good name recognition that they already know it. Pentax is neither. Pentad's name recognition starts with Spotmatic and ends with K1000, with nothing in between. If Pentax's DSLR sales are just dependent on long time Pentax users then they'll sell about as many as Minolta did of their Maxxum 9's.
