Pentax has said so in their last quarterly report. they are no better or worse off than Canon, Nikon or the other SLR manufacturers. film SLR sales are plummeting for everyone and DSLR sales are skyrocketing. these companies are forecasting 80-90% increase in 2004 DSLR sales over 2003 with film SLR sales decreasing by about the same number of cameras. these are in the company's own quarterly reports. Nikon is planning on making 800,000 D70's this year. you can bet Canon is making at least as many 300Ds. that's not even including the higher end models of each. i need to dig up the web site again for the Japanese Association that reports total cameras manufactured by month, but i remember the total SLRs manufacturered world wide for film and digital in 2002 was under 5 million units. for some reason the number 3.6 million sticks in my mind. i need to find the web site again.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:11 PM Subject: outselling film > > I seem to recall reading a post recently that said that Pentax expects its > DSLRs to outsell its film SLRs in two years. > > Are Pentax's film camera sales that bad? I find it hard to believe that > a product that is currently selling for $1350 or thereabouts is going to > outsell a product that is going for less than $350. Where are people > going to come up with that spare $1000?
