Hi Boz, I believe I'm one of those close to your point of view. Pentax is good enough for what I do now, yet when trying to take on more specialized genres of photography I always look either to old lenses or to third parties. Pentax 35mm became a highly polarized system, and it's rarefied core leaves little to no options to advanced amateurs.
However I couldn't bring myself to make the switch, at least not in the film realm. I still expect Pentax to pull themselves together and rebuild a coherent system. Should I see the sign, I will continue to support Pentax. If all they do is cutting corners and crippling mounts to grab first time SLR buyers, then I might just keep the current film setup - as you do with LX - and buy into another digital 35mm system. Anyway, I do hope you'll drop in pdml from time to time. You've done a terrific job with the KMP, and it'll be a pity to see it turning into the K mount museum. Servus, Alin Bojidar wrote: BD> Now, where is Pentax? I feel that they have slowly but surely abandoned BD> the market segment in which I am -- serious amateur. If we ignore the BD> brilliant FA* 200-600/5.6, they don't have much for sports or wild-life BD> professionals either. They seem to be concentrating in the segment of BD> *ist and below. I have nothing against that, but I wish Pentax would BD> come out and say if my assumption is correct, or they are simply lacking BD> the money/people/resources to develop things faster. BD> In the end, it is all very simple. I feel that very few serious BD> amateurs and professionals use Pentax gear, and therefore the few BD> serious Pentax items do not sell very well. This then leads to Pentax BD> not investing very much in development of such items, and more serious BD> amateurs and professionals switch to other brands. It's a vicious BD> circle, and I am the real loser. BD> So I switched... But like I said, I'll keep an LX, FE-1, two bright BD> screens, a 17/4 fish, A20/2.8, A24/2.8, K30/2.8, A50/1.7, and A100/2.8 BD> Macro. Sad as it may be, soon after my current eBay auctions are over, BD> I will also sell the superA, MZ-5n, battery pack Fg, M24-35/3.5 and FA BD> 24-90/3.5-4.5. BD> Once again, thanks for all your positive remarks and nice comments to my BD> previous mail. BD> Cheers, BD> Boz
