Re: New Pentax SMC-DA 3.5-4.5/15-26

[Robert Gonzalez]

I know it sounds too flattering to Pentax, but it also seems too 
coincidental. Ever since Pentax announced the *istD in Feb, there had 
been rumors of its potential low release price. The idea that another 
company creating the first sub $1000 camera was too much for Canon, 
which obviously wanted that distinction.  By cutting every corner and 
re-using as much technology out of the 10D as they could, Canon created 
the digi rebel and quickly announced it and its price right before 
Pentax did.

Herb Chong wrote:
i sincerely doubt that Canon paid the slightest attention to Pentax in their
marketing plans for the 300D.
Herb....
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And Pentax may have made a mistake by not pricing the *istD more
aggressively.  Canon may have stolen the *istD's thunder by coming out
with the 300D at < $1000, which they may have thought the Pentax camera
was going to priced at.  By not competing with the 300D, in which Pentax
would have been clearly superior to, it got lost in the noise.  Lack of
deep pockets to fight that war may have been the reason.  It probably
would have been unsustainable at those price levels, even for the
lucrative market share it might have given them.