it means you and other people like you aren't important enough in the total
scheme of things to matter. serious amateurs and pros make up a tiny portion
of total sales. DSLRs don't sell enough to have statistically significant
numbers on such surveys. they make up about 8% of total Japanese production
and about 5% of total worldwide production. Pentax intends to sell 120K
DSLRs and about 2.1M total digital cameras this fiscal year. by the numbers,
Pentax DSLRs are insignificant even to Pentax if it were not for the fact
that Pentax actually makes some money on them while they don't on the P&S
cameras.
Herb...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: JD Powers US Digital Camera satisfaction survey
At 08:25 PM 8/16/2005, Herb Chong wrote:
http://www.jdpower.com/cc/electronics/ratings/digital_camera/index.jsp
Herb....
SONY ?! ... H.P.?
These are among the "best" names?
I wonder how these cameras are being judged?
I don't think they are being judged by serious amateurs or professionals.
Also, where is Pentax in the over $600 category? Where is Konica/Minolta?
Sigma? Leica?
I noticed that in many of the "lesser" price categories, the traditional
camera companies often didn't finish near the top of the list. There's no
way I'd more satisfied with a H.P. camera than a Pentax, Nikon, Canon,
etc. The traditional camera makers know what makes a good camera, and
there is more to a good camera than the computer/consumer electronics
companies realize. These other companies only know what's popular with
computer geeks and total amateurs who don't know anything at all about
cameras or photography.
Quite frankly, I'm stunned. I could understand Pentax ranking beneath one
of the other traditional makers of fine cameras, but to be beaten by the
likes of Casio, Samsung, and Hewlett-Packard is absolutely outrageous.
None of these companies make anything as good as my *istDS. I have a
feeling that the Pentax point-and-shoot cameras are also better than their
point-and-shoot cameras.
Sorry, but I simply can't think of anything clever and happy to say about
this situation.
