On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 19:28 America/New_York, Alan Chan wrote:
Don't forget Canon took everyone by surprise with their Rebel Digital which was released later. Perhaps Pentax knew that. But if not, Pentax didn't choose not to compete with it, but forced not to. There is a big difference.
I suspect that the Rebel Digital is selling on razor-thin margins. It would be a very risky venture for Pentax to do that with their very first DSLR. Since margins are typically higher on higher-end gear, Pentax (and Canon, Contax and Nikon before them) rolled out their first DSLR in the market segment where people don't think a lot about spending so much money.
--jc
