>From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Japan DSLR Stats >Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:40:46 -0700 > >On Aug 24, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Tom C wrote: > > That's not true at all. How can you make a judgement like that? > >By interpreting what I read on this list. It's my opinion: I can form >whatever opinion I want from the evidence in front of me. >
So now you know your formed opinion may be wrong. :-) And by your logic, what's wrong with other's evaluating the evidence and stating their opinion? >You may disagree with that opinion, but it doesn't change the fact >that this is how it sounds to me from reading all these bs postings >and rants. > > > I really don't give a rat's ass about what people think about the > > camera I > > carry. I do care about how I spend the limited amount of money I have > > because I can't afford to run out and buy a new camera system > > everyday. > > > > It's also of interest because Pentax's position in the marketplace > > has a > > bearing on how quickly and slowly they bring new products to > > market. So far > > I think their stupid *ist D variations and now two more K100 6MP > > variations > > were a waste of resources when they should have been concentrating on > > getting more innovative products to market sooner. > >If you "can't afford to run out and buy a new camera system everyday" >what does it matter that Pentax "should have been concentrating on >getting more innovative products to market sooner"? > Because if they had a higher spec'd body it wouldn't be a whole new system, and maybe I can afford that. Yes I realize you don't consider camera gear an investment, but some of us may buy 5 DLSR's, some 2, some only 1. So making the choice that's right for us individually is important. >They've built a fine set of cameras with modest variations on a >theme, continuing to tune and improve on the technology along the way >and relying upon a well-proven sensor (which they don't manufacture). >All of them work well and take as much advantage of what went before >as possible. To me, as someone who also "can't afford to run out and >buy a new camera system everyday", this is a good thing as it points >to an orientation towards conservative, developmental product >strategy as opposed to an every-nine-months-a-new-thing-that- >obsoletes-everything-that-came-before strategy based on riskier new >component developments. > >I like cameras that work well and stick around a while, unchanged, >and don't give a damn about "new innovative products" once a model is >achieved which basically does what I need. The DS body does what I >need ... it's fast enough and high enough resolution to suffice for >my work now ... and I'm looking forward to the K10D body as I feel >that the improvements it should offer (greater resolution, image >stabilization, etc) will add another measure of capability to expand >that work. > >G > As Jack Davis adeptly realized and pointed out, I'm not bashing the physical Pentax product. I'm commenting on Pentax's strategy and marketing. I'm wondering how their decisions of the past and present will affect their future. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
