On 13 Mar 2005 at 22:28, John Celio wrote: > Telling a rep, or writing the company for that matter, won't influence > Pentax, or anyone else, to make what you want unless it's economically > feasible. They need to know they can make money off a product, and Pentax > probably couldn't get a good enough margin on a 35mm-size sensor'd camera. > Hell, > with their shrinking user-base, they'd probably LOSE money just thinking about > one.
Just joshin' ya John however I think it would be wise to treat most things a local sales rep says about their Japanese parent company particularly on the engineering side with some scepticism. I'm sure that you are correct that the Canon guys make good money on their $8k bodies but it's probably less then they'd have you believe. > You're not alone in wanting a 35mm sensor, but there sure aren't enough of you > for Pentax to go that way and survive. Not at the moment, anyway. These are > the > realities of the camera market at this time. Well they have to head some direction to remain viable into the future and the release of a FF 35mm DSLR/s would be a logical progression at this point to my mind. Cheers, 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
