From: Chris Brogden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:27:52 -0600 (CST)
It doesn't matter if the p&s's are film or digital; both suffer from the same limitations that drive people to buy an entry-level SLR in the first place. I sell cameras. I see on a daily basis what people want.
As I wrote, the MZ/ZX-60 will continue to sell as long as there's a demand for it. It will no be replaced any time soon. Pentax does not abandon this market just because the *ist is the entry model in the *ist serie. They will still have the MZ/ZX-60. Replacing a model serie with another one takes time. The Z/PZ-70 and the MZ/ZX-5nco existed for a couple of years, the Z/PZ-70 was still on the market when the MZ/ZX-10 came.
In two years, how do we know how the market is? It can happen much in two years. Pentax looks into the future.
I simply believes that they will not come a new *ist to replace the MZ/ZX-60. When then demand for the MZ/ZX-60 is gone, there will be no more *ist. Since the MZ/ZX-60 is so new, it will probably sell for the next 2 years. And after that, who knows how the market looks like? Perhaps everything is digital. The digital revolution goes fast. I believe that the *ist is the last filmbased SLR serie coming from Pentax.
Best wishes, Roland
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