At 6:30 PM -0700 9/2/06, Douglas Newman wrote: >--- "George Sinos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Keppler always has an interesting take on the >> industry. > >Indeed, very interesting. > >It is worth noting that Herb uses a Pentax *ist D and >a Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D - not a Canon or Nikon. (He >is a long-time Pentax and Minolta user.) > >It is interesting that he implies that Pentax are not >really interested so much in "serious" photographers >as point-and-shooters who will be attracted by >"colorful graphics on the LCD panel". Not the >direction I would like to see them moving in...
My hypothesis is that Pentax designed their 35mm cameras for the varying levels of amateur users. For the pros they had their two medium format lines. How all this translates over to the digital age remains to be seen. -- Steve Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://earth.delith.com/photo_gallery.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
