Funny I was out for a late night ramble, (well not so late, but after
9:00PM, 21:00 military for those outside the US), and ran into a guy who
about 30 years ago bought what he called an ME, (an ME Super based on
his description however), after being in a closet for about 25 years he
decided to dig it out and make some quality photographs, or so he said.
He's looking for lenses and was unaware that Pentax had a DSLR. When I
showed him my *ist-D he was very impressed. (Damn, now that I think
about I've got a couple of redundant lenses I should have tried to sell
him).
Malcolm Smith wrote:
William Robb wrote:
Most consumers want to buy a camera, and not have to do
anything other than
push the shutter button. They don't want to worry about,
think about, or
have to know about camera exposure settings.
They buy SLR cameras mostly because they get sold on the idea of
interchangable lenses (though most of the time they take the
kit zoom lens
and may buy a short telephoto zoom and nothing else), not
because they want
more exposure controls that they most likely don't
understand, nor want to
understand.
This I know from my years of selling equipment and serving
customers at the
retail level.
I can think of two people I know who have DSLRs who will probably never take
the lens off the camera it came with. So many times on eBay and other
adverts you see lenses for sale boxed as new and never used. How many people
across the world have Pentax cameras and/or lenses that have sat unused in a
cupboard or loft for more than a decade? People on this list are enthusiasts
or dedicated users of the equipment but for an unknown percentage of new
sales, six months down the line the photography bug could have gone and the
whole lot goes into indefinite storage. The chances are if the bug bites
again, they will want the latest equipment at the time anyway and so the
cycle starts again...
Malcolm
--
When you're worried or in doubt,
Run in circles, (scream and shout).
