Wasn't offended by any part of it, Tom. ;-) Hope it doesn't stymie Pentax profits though. <LOL> This technology is so frigging short term and primitive that the next development corner turned will only re-group the industry for another dash to the "market share" tape. It will forever be a tech driven marketing scramble and I'll be in the stands cheering.
Jack --- Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Crap... > > I hate it when I send things to the list that were menat to be > private. :-( > > Tom C. > > > > > > > >From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: Some more new camera speculation > >Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:36:52 -0700 > > > >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]> > >>Reply-To: [email protected] > >>To: <[email protected]> > >>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 > >> > >> > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
