Shel wrote:
"This whole experience of trying to find a camera that was
released only a few months ago has been an eye-opening
experience. That the camera has been replaced with a lower
speced version, the istDL, says something about Pentax, that
they don't have a clue as to what they're doing."
The most bizarre thing about Pentax's current behavior is that
they are walking away from money on the table.
For an unknown length of time, they will leave the market
without their most popular, mid-priced model.
People have been clamoring for the better FA and FA* lenses, yet
Pentax discontinues them. When Pentax switched to autofocus, it
took them 13 years to complete the lens line-up (1987-2000).
While I am pleased at what I see on the roadmap, there are many
large holes to fill yet, especially at the telephoto end. How
long will these lenses take a small company to produce? In the
meantime, why not produce the FA and FA* lenses.
It has been suggested that Pentax lost money on the FA* lenses.
Maybe so, but the market is so strong now that Pentax could sell
those lenses at a higher price. Some of them now sell used on
eBay for more than the sold for new.
I am very glad to see signs of life and rationality, maybe even
strategy, in the recent announcements. But they are still doing
some very strange things.
How could a company leave the market without its most popular
products?
Joe
- Logic of Pentax. Was: Miffed at Adorama (Gotta vent!) Joseph Tainter
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