On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > ...I think a lot of current Pentax users are going to be very > pleased with > this camera and its value, and perhaps it will move those who might > buy a > Nikon, Canon, or a Sony into the Pentax fold.
A good friend of mine, and an excellent photographer, is just now considering a DSLR after some years of working with an Olympus C5060 Wide Zoom. What I find sad is that even though the Pentax K100D meets or exceeds all of his expressed desires for resolution, size, weight, lens quality and focal length ranges, he refuses to even consider a Pentax of any kind. It's going to be Canon, Nikon or Olympus ... or nothing. I don't know why, but there you have it. On the other hand, Felipe and I had a houseguest this weekend (she flew up from Tijuana specifically to attend my closing party! :-) and we decided to take her to Alcatraz for an outing on Sunday. Waiting in line for the boat the first three other people I saw with anything other than a point and shoot were carrying Pentax *ist DL, *ist DS and K100D cameras. The DS user seemed to be the most camera savvy of the three, the other two were definitely new "point and shoot upgraders" based on how they were using their cameras. I had the DS+20-35+77 with me; it proved quite a nice pairing of lenses for this outing, although I'd have liked my tripod and DA14 as well. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
