I don't agree because its not that simple. What you say is right but its not the whole story. If someone is going to start from scratch, WHY IN THE WORLD would they choose pentax? Pentax is inferior mount to both canon and minolta because those companies made the leap to a newer more modern lens mount when they went to AF but pentax hasn't. Pentax chose to go with compatability instead but now there trying to change their mind without changing or updating the mount. If you are new buyer you get WORST of both worlds by choosing pentax. NO new mount and no old compatabity. I would NEVER recommend Pentax to anyone now who is starting from scratch, I would and I have repeatedly recommended Canon EOS because they have a modern mount and they are way ahead of minotla who also has a more modern mount. And if you buy a new DSLR body and then have to replace all your high performance lenses because pentax doesn't support them in the way you need to use them, then you ARE essentially starting from scratch so the switch to Canon would be much smarter IMHO than starting from scratch with pentax. The main reason to stick with pentax always was they made progressions without losing compatability of K/M, if that gone, theres nothing left to like about Pentax IMHO. Just my take on it...
-----Original Message----- From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 9:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm company survival trumps promises. the imaging products division continues to lose money and only the most optimistic forecasts say that it will make money in 2007. breakeven in 2006 is possible with some luck. because of Pentax's bottom feeder strategy for DSLRs, the only part of the imaging products division making money, even tiny additional parts or assembly costs have to be shaved. if you think competition in the camera industry is bad now, wait until next year. i see Pentax working as hard to be as compatible as they can afford to and no harder. i fully expect that the next higher end digital body will also be without aperture lever and will have no more compatibility than any existing digital body. in the next couple of years, there will be fewer and fewer new Pentax lenses with aperture rings because there will be no production body that needs them. the people that matter to Pentax are the ones that buy new Pentax equipment now. Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 9:04 PM Subject: Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm > Pentax made a promise. If they don't keep it, then what assurance do > you > have that anything they promise, either implicitly or expressly, will be > honored? The answer is none. JCO is right. At which point there is no > longer any reason for brand loyalty to Pentax. It's a short sighted > business decision, indicative of HBS MBA thinking. This kind of thing > kills companies, eventually we will all go to Canon. If we can't have > continuity then at least we can have the latest technology.
