Hell, Rob, at $6-7K, I know I wouldn't have been able to afford it. Besides, look at all the problems Contax had to go through with that chip. I think Pentax was wise to drop it. Later on, when Foveon produces a full frame chip, or when Sony makes a nice full frame chip, we'll probably have one, too. I, too, would love to be able to afford to buy a 1Ds. It will come in time. Sony's F828 is not without its problems, if I can believe what I read about it, but I could well end up with one as my high-end P&S.
Len * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 5:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ditching Pentax > > > On 10 Dec 2003 at 14:06, Bill D. Casselberry wrote: > > > Rob Studdert wrote: > > > > > If Pentax hadn't lead us up the garden path with pre-releases > > > such as the MZ-D many of us wouldn't own Pentax kit now. > > > I definitely wouldn't. > > > > Oh; sure you would, Rob > > > > ... nobody would buy it from you so you'd still own it > > by default. Could toss it all into the sea, I suppose, > > to get around the stigma of owning Pentax gear ;^) > > Wouldn't throw it away of course (sold the 67 gear but it > would have made good > boat anchors), but I did manage to liberate quite a chunk of > Pentax gear before > the prices started to fall significantly and before the US$ > took its nose dive > :-) > > Problem is that I bought a chunk of new gear with the > proceeds, like a set of > LTD lenses, some choice Voigtlander lenses in K mount and a > new MZ-S on the > premise of things to come digital. > > As we all know the only Pentax DLSR released thus far took > too long to deliver > and was significantly different from the initial camera that > was presented to > the public. A real disappointment unless you are into > comparing camera sizes or > a user new to the market with money to burn for lenses. > > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 >
