On 21 Jun 2004 at 7:17, cbwaters wrote: > I understand what your saying but I don't buy that argument. I've never > understood what relevance the other cameras in a company's line-up have on > whether or not you buy camera X.
It's all about the said companies perceived commitment to the market. Pentaxs showing thus far in the current digital SLR arena has been poor even compared to Sigma. > Does this argument hold up for other products? > I wouldn't buy Morton's Salt because they don't have a line of salts that I > could move up to should I want a better one down the road? Not a great analogy. > I can't buy the Viper > because Chrysler doesn't have any more super sports cars in their line-up for me > to choose from? If you buy Cannon or Nikons' best- most expensive DSLR, even > they don't have any models to move up to! SO look at the camera on it's own > merits, there's no sense in judging camera X on the availability of cameras y & > z. If you REALLY need/want camera Z, don't be messing around with X in the first > place. Which is what it comes back to, we don't have a choice should we want one, you are assuming that the *ist D is the best choice. It's the only choice. > It doesn't do/have what you need anyway. In the case of novice buyers > who don't have the money to buy the super-d-duper camera body and a stable of > fine lenses at the outset, I can almost see how the argument might apply but I'd > bet the first time buyers aren't concentrating so much on products available > up-line as on what cameras are available in their immediate price range. And choice within other brands has dictated that many new DSLR adopters are purchasing 300Ds, I know of at least 3 in my group of friends, 2 of which owned older Canon ystems and the other a film P&S owner. No one I know outside this list has yet purchased a *ist D. 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
