I liked the in-camera IS idea. Keeps lens prices down.
Tom C.
From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: End of Konica Minolta brand? Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:44:52 -0500 mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Unusurprising. KM was years late to the DSLR game and it seems to have >> killed them. Even Pentax has a much larger share of the (profitable) >> DSLR market, but then again, the *istD was on the market almost 2 years >> before the Maxxum 7D arrived. > >Didn't Mike Johnston buy one of those? I think so. I haven't emailed him for a while but I'm pretty sure he was planning on getting one. I kind of liked the concept behind the camera. Not necessarily the in-camera IS (thought that's nice) but the idea of having most of the controls accessible via external controls rather than computer-driven menus. It resulted in an ugly camera but I'll bet it was nice to use (reviews seem to have said as much). The Pentax DSLR's sure are prettier but I often find myself wishing there were a simpler way of changing a setting or two. Of course, it would appear that the Pentax approach worked better from a marketing standpoint <g>. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
