Re: *istD: to wait or not to wait that is the question

[Paul Stenquist]

Thanks Herb. Interesting data. I wonder if it will discourage Pentax 
from releasing a hi-res DSLR? I'm sort of in a quandry here because I 
have an out of town assignment. I may have to leave quite soon, and I 
can't really try to do it with no backup body. I was really kind of 
wondering if we might see another price drop in the next week or two. 
But since B&H is already lower than everyone else, I suspect they will 
stay the course. And with the rebate on the DA16-45, I  think I'll go 
for it now. But this information is enlightening. I might be kicking 
myself in the butt come December.
Paul
On Sep 3, 2004, at 8:17 PM, Herb Chong wrote:

some perspective.
several financial analysts have written about the state of digital 
camera
sales with the CIPA (Japanese manufacturers) release of the July 
digital
camera manufacturing figures. the most important to you is that North
American sales dropped about 14% in July compared to June. with regard 
to
DSLR sales, they grew somewhat overall, but Nikon grew very much while
Canon's dropped. the D70 is a much more popular camera than the Digital
Rebel, it seems. Pentax was the first to announce a downward revision 
of
sales figures for the year, with all of the other Japanese vendors 
expected
to follow suit in the next few weeks. some analysts don't believe the 
new
Pentax numbers and think they should be lower yet. a couple of new low 
end
DSLRs are expect to hit the marketplace in the October timeframe in 
time for
Christmas. analysts are expecting a price war on the low end DSLR 
market
with the smaller companies like Pentax losing out. profit margins on 
DSLRs,
current quite high, are expected to plummet, although they will not 
drop to
the razor thin margins of 3 and 4 megapixel cameras.

Herb...
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Subject: *istD: to wait or not to wait that is the question

I'm going to add a second *istD body. Right now B&H is offering an
*istD plus the DA 16-45 for $1475 after a $200 rebate. Is it going to
get better than this any time soon? What thinks the list?
Paul