Most heavy user pros have already made their digital choices and sold
off what they had to in order to achieve them. However, there is a
large supply of Pentax 645 glass out there. As I said before, if the
camera is priced to appeal to advanced amateurs and small budget pros
(wedding photogs, nature shooters and magazine PJs for example), it
might do very well. If it comes in at 10K, as some here have predicted,
it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.
Paul
On Oct 21, 2005, at 11:39 PM, Gonz wrote:
Pål Jensen wrote:
Dario wrote:
Today, digital FF is more than enough for at least 99% of the pro
market. For that reason I think of digital MF as a niche.
But these kind of arguments are absurd! It they made any kind of
sense we would still be driving Ford model T's. Kodachrome was good
enough for 99% of all 35mm outdoor shooters but still virtually all
of them switched to Velvia because it was "better". The fact is that
people will buy the best there is as long as it is within reasonable
cost/hassle constraints. Whats good enough doesn't enter the
equation.
And there's a ready supply of equipment out there owned by pros ready
to make the switch over to a new 645 digital body. Why sell
everything and start over when you've got such an investment already,
not only in glass, but in the know how to use it.
Pål
