On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Boris Liberman wrote: > Sylwek, I think the main issue here is like this. Imagine for a > moment, just for sake of this discussion, that Pentax or Minolta are
Or Nikon :-) > considering investing into development of FF DSLR, but still on the > marketing level. Now they read the news. What would they say - "these > guys at Kodak are not stupid, and they've just cancelled the FF DSLR > they had"... Perhaps the technology is not still there, not from the > cost effectiveness point of view. So they decide to not even think of > pursuing a FF DSLR... You assume that the news were unexpected or inexplicable to them; I am not sure about that. You see, these people are no little-Kostases[1] with all talk and no walk asking for a FF solution yesterday or else. They know how much what costs and how far they can go, and make their decisions accordingly. > Who knows, perhaps development of FF DSLR is *the* next breakthrough > which now will be postponed, perhaps indefinitely... Or may be not... To me, the question has been answered already (Paal?): Pentax has no market penetration to sell enough FF DSLRs and is better off waiting for other factors to drop the price of the sensor. Pentax is not in the market for people in need of bragging rights. Sod the FF and bring back the bloody actuator! (said he, stirring the fight from a suitable distance :-) Kostas [1] Name picked randomly :-o
