Hello John, I couldn't have said it any better. I feel just about the same as you.
-- Best regards, Bruce Friday, April 29, 2005, 7:51:06 PM, you wrote: JF> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 07:36:33PM -0600, Tom C wrote: JF> It sounds to me as though you had rather unreasonable expectations. JF> When Canon had released five DSLRs (1D, 30D, 60D, 10D, 1Ds) before JF> Pentax got their first one onto the shelves, it was quite obvious JF> that Pentax were going to be at best playing catchup. JF> If any diehard Pentax user expects Pentax to suddenly leapfrog to JF> the front of the technology curve, they're viewing the last several JF> decades through heavily rose-tinted glasses. JF> Pentax will probably (if they manage to stay in business that long) JF> introduce a follow-on model to the *istD sometime in 2006. But it's JF> unlikely to be either cost- or feature- competitive with the Canon JF> replacement for the 20D which I would expect to debut not much later JF> (or, possibly, even before the Pentax). JF> But, you know what? I don't care. My *ist-D seems perfectly adequate JF> for the tasks I set it, just as my PZ-1p and MZ-S seemed to do about JF> as well as the F5 and 1D bodies the other manufacturers offered. I JF> don't need to be out there on the cutting edge, where the differences JF> from those top-of-the-line models become apparent. Equally, I expect JF> that the *ist-Dn, or whatever it is called, will meet my needs. JF> I've looked at what it would take to switch to Canon; at present it JF> might be possible without an enormous penalty (A* and FA* lenses JF> seem to be fetching excellent prices on eBay, and I've got a few JF> of those). But I'm not convinced that it would make a significant JF> difference - I don't find my current equipment is the limiting factor. JF> Sure, I'd like IS. I'd like USM. (I used to add AF TCs to that JF> list, but at least I'll soon have a couple of Sigmas to cover that). JF> My other major annoyance with the D (frame rate & buffer size) will JF> automatically be upgraded by any newer model as a matter of course, JF> and I expect the pixel count will increase as well for those few JF> occasions when 6MP isn't quite enough.
