Offlist so I don't get whammed.
I really think that Pentax will not be around for ever in the consumer
camera market. I of course can be wrong. If I were a bettor, I'd give it a
50/50 chance they sell the thing to Samsung.
I think the 645D will have a hard time selling because 1) many photographers
that wanted a much higher resolution will have already went with offerings
such as the 16.7 MP Canon EOS 1DS and 2) the price will be too high. I
suspect Pentax will not make a heck of alot of money on it.
I think Pentax can only hope to hold market share, not gain it. Growth in
DSLR's is already slackening as the market saturates. If they don't get
their product out in front of the buying public, they will lose market
share. At some point, not making money will make it so there is little left
for R&D to design and perfect new products. I think we already see that.
Agreed, what we *know* about the new Pentax is very little.
Tom
Tom C.
From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Some more new camera speculation
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:21:43 -0600
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C"
Subject: Re: Some more new camera speculation
For me at least, I don't plan to throw any more money into Pentax. A lot
of the photography I enjoy doing is night shots, including quite shortly
astrophotography. Therefore a lower noise at higher ISO camera would be
of great benefit.
No law sez you can't buy a camera body specifically for astrophotography.
It can be whatever you want.
The low noise thing is a non starter though. There is only the Canon 5D
which may have noticably lower noise than the other stuff thats out there.
Something I have found is that quite often what appears to be a noisy image
on the screen turns out to be quite a nice image on paper. I think it has
something to do with looking for problems at 200%, then looking at pictures
at 20%.
Also, no one has any idea of what sort of noise levels the new Pentax will
have, since at this point, no one has seen images from it, what sort of
moise reduction software will be built into it, or even know for sure what
chip will be in it.
William Robb
