>As you mentioned in a previous post the T90 was more popular among the
>professionals than the professional Canon F1.
Interestingly, T90 was not marketed as a professional camera (or from what I
have read at least). That's the reason why so many T90 have broken shutters.
>The EOS1 was more of a T90 replacement than anything else; not a
>professional camera in the way that professional cameras has been defined
>previously. This only proves that if the brand is of the right pedigree
>then it get away with defining their professional cameras the way they
>want.
AFAIK, T90 was a testing ground for the upcoming EOS system in late 80's.
With this logic in mind, EOS 1 was not a replacement for the T90.
>Pentax (and Minolta for that matter), will suffer criticism if they label
>something professional and if its not a blueprint of a Nikon or a Canon.
>I've said it before but say it again: if the MZ-S had been a Nikon, and
>sold as the lighweight professional camera at $200 more than the MZ-S,
>nobody would have had any problem with that or Nikon's marketing.
I guess we would never know. It's all speculation.
regards,
Alan Chan
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