They cripple the features of the camera but the image quality is still there. According to the dpreview tests the sharpness and noise levels stack up perilessly well against a Nikon D100. The feature set of such a crippled camera is still enough for most uses. Not surprising the Rebel film cameras have always outsell the higher models. For most people price is an important consideration.
Let's face it. Even the camera division alone Canon is almost 10 times larger than Pentax, not even counting the copiers and printers. Pentax is getting into this harmful viscious cycle. They don't have enough market share, so they do not enjoy enough economy of scale. Their higher prices further weaken their market share. Canon knows very well about this. They already have the volume to do something like this. They don't sit on their laurels. They are more agressive than ever, using their market share advantage to try to annihilate competition. If I buy stocks in these companies it has to be Canon not Pentax, although when I buy cameras, I still... Pentax's strategy has always been to focus on the point-and-shoot. They kind of ignore their failures in 35mm SLR and they can build their professional image with 645 and 67 lines. I don't see how Pentax can get out of this viscious cycle with something like the *ist D. They'd better go the tried and proven route and focus on stuff such as the Optio and come up with a digital 645 solution asap. Yes it is a shame, the very name of Pentax came from Pentaprism and Reflex (or Contax). They were the king of the hill for 35mm SLRs until eroded by first Nikon and now Canon. But what else can they do ? I don't know why they change their corporate name worldwide. They'd better continue to call themselves Asahi Optical given these are what they have been doing. -- Bo-Ming Tong ----- Original Message ----- From: Christian Skofteland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:15 pm Subject: OT: review of digi-rebel > http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos300d/ > > It's VERY entry-level. I would not call it "competition" for the > ist-D on > features. > > Christian Skofteland > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
