it also gives them a way to drop the film body line without losing their users completely. film camera sales in Japan are down 50% from last year with a larger drop in P&S cameras than SLR, but that's still over 40% for SLR film bodies. Pentax's market share dropped 2% down to about 7% of film camera sales in Japan. by the numbers, that meant that Pentax sold about 100K film cameras of all types in Japan in the past year.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arnold Stark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:43 AM Subject: Re: 35mm coverage of new lenses > Obviously full frame coverage has two advantages: > > 1.) Future Pentax DSLRs are not to be limited to APS sized sensors at a > time when larger sensors become cheap enough (at that time such DSLRs > need not necessarily be "pro-ish"); > > 2.) The new lenses are attractive to the owners of analogue SLRs and > those who use both ASLRs and DSRLS.
