On Jul 19, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Herb Chong wrote:
5) non-Pentax DSLR owners who want a Pentax instead - sorry, but i think Godfrey is probably the only such person that will ever exist.
I wasn't going to do much commenting on this thread as I personally believe that Pentax business concerns are their concerns, I don't really have much opinion about it.
However. I know of at least a dozen people who have bought the DS since I bought mine, who owned Nikon/Canon/whatever other SLRs before (and several of them Nikon and Canon DSLRs) because they saw my pictures and handled my camera, and were suitably impressed.
That's the key. For me the bottom line is: Make products that are compelling. If the cameras and lenses are compelling ... and to most people interested in taking pictures rather than comparing feature sets, the Pentax DSLRs are compelling ... there will be a market for them unless Pentax totally cocks up the distribution chain.
Godfrey
