William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Studdert"
Subject: Re: Pentax DSLR future
On 22 Oct 2005 at 16:36, William Robb wrote:
There is a huge number of 645 lenses out there.
If I was the owner of a half dozen of them, I'd seriously look at
buying a
digital body that could take advantage of them, no matter what other
system I
already had in place, providing it wasn't egregiously expensive.
I just can't help think that the majority of pro-P645 shooters have
either sold
off their 645 kit or have the lenses lying on a shelf some place and
have moved
on to a current system. So really it wouldn't be all that appealing to
them.
The remainder of the lenses would be in the hands of amateurs who
really most
probably aren't going to be able to afford the damn DSLR body anyhow.
That may be. I can only speak for myself, and if I had a half dozen
expensive lenses sitting around, I'd be looking for some way to make
that investment work for me.
Those are my thoughts exactly. If the bottom line is always on their
mind, why take a huge loss on moving from one system to another? I
mean, if you have 10-20K invested in gear in one system, it might take
20-30k to move to a new, 35mm full frame system. That kind of money is
not easy to make up in a hurry.
William Robb
