On 4/22/05, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly. It's the cameras that have created the demand for the lenses. > If desirable products continue to come, lens prices will remain high. > What we're seeing now is partially due to a big swing from P&S to DSLR. > Pentax probably developed some brand loyalty with their numerous and > successful P&S cameras. Those people moving to DSLR created a demand > for lenses. This won't be as great a factor in the future, but the > current sales have already depleted the supply of out of production > lenses, so prices for those should remain fairly high. > Paul
While I don't doubt that what you say is true, there are certainly many factors at work here. Who knows how many there are out there who owned K1000's and ME's and several lenses, but lost interest in photography years ago, and put the kit away. Affordable DSLR's revived that interest, and upon finding out that their lenses will actually work on the *istDs, it was a viable choice. I'm sure that there are many who simply bought a *istDs based on it's price/quality ratio - yes, it's a bit more than a DigiRebel, but the difference in feel and apparent solidity is obvious. Hopefully, a competent salesperson would sell the Pentax on (among other things) backward compatibility, reminding the customer that very high quality manual focus Pentax glass is out there at a bargain price. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
