----- Original Message -----
From: "J. C. O'Connell"
Subject: RE: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
PENTAX DSLR buyers own/buy 99% zoom lenses?
Where do you get that information from? I don't
believe that one bit. Zooms have too many limitations
for certain things to have reached that level
of market share or even close to that even today...
I just talked to my local full service shop.
The sales manager there sez they sell some 50s to the pro boys because it's
now a cheap portrait lens, and they sometimes sell longer telephotos to the
sports photographers (also professionals), but that these sales are very few
and far between.
He mentioned the very rare sales of 100 and 200mm macro lenses as well.
He said that they sell almost no prime lenses, that "it's all zooms now".
So, given that Pentax is not really recognized as serving the working pro
sports photographer, nor really recognized as a brand used by the
professional photographer at all, it's a pretty safe statement to make that
99% of Pentax DSLR buyers are buying zooms, since the entire market seems to
consist of zoom lens sales, with the rare fixed lens sale from time to time,
ususally to someone doing some sort of specialty photography.
William Robb
