Pål Jensen wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan K. Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wow, you're really obsessed with Hassie dying. I absolutely hate to
say it, but Pentax seems more at risk- they're being chased into
lower and lower margins by the market leader (makes for great ist Dx
prices though) and they don't have any MF cameras that are used
commercially.
Nobody has MF cameras that are used commercially.
Har!
Phase One, Leaf, Hass/Fuji, etc. must all be imaginary then.
Except for a few artists, commercial MF is digital. Period.
No one is going to migrate back to the once-great, "but I got burned
on the digital transition" 645 and 67 lines.
Why not?
Okay. Assume you're making a living with commercial photography. That
means you had to buy a camera that could output digital for your
clients. If it's MF shooting, then you had to sell your Pentax 645 or
67 to buy something that would take a digital back. Now you're supposed
to sell that to come back to a brand that abandoned the commercial
market? Yeah, right.
Not to mention, you can't take your back with you! And that means you
can't take advantage of dropping sensor prices and improving technology
as much as your neighbor with a backless, digital friendly MF camera can.
Or if they migrated to Canon or Nikon FF or APSc, then there's not going
to buy Pentax 645 stuff again.
Sensor prices aren't going to plummet like Moore's law- die sizes
have stayed the same now for a long time.
Sensor prices has dropped significantly the last few years. It will
continue
But not like PCs, where things are magnitudes cheaper every year.
-R
