On 2006-09-15, at 23:49, K.Takeshita wrote: > No, I have been staying away from Japan these days. It's too > tiring :-). > Not in October timing anyway. If I would be in Japan I'm sure I wouldn't find it "tiring" no matter which month ;-)
> However, there will be a lot of report coming out in various forums > in Japan > and I can summarize and report. This "Seminar" thing is a fad in > the Camera > industry in Japan, and everybody is doing it, although I am a bit > surprised > that Pentax is on this bandwagon :-). But it is a clear indication > that > Pentax are serious in competing and doing the same thing > competitors are > doing. > Canon did it for their Rebel (400D), Nikon for D200, and recently > D80. But > the biggest extravaganza was Sony's Alpha. However, as far as I > could tell, > these are just shows and not much substance in them. It's like mfr's > private show and mostly let visitors actually handle the models > (which is > important). "Seminar" sounds big but because of the demography of > usual > visitors for this sort of event, it's apparently mostly an overview. So it seems to be a good sign indeed. I hope they'll continue this new "trend". > Interview with designers etc are separately showing up on web sites > (not > much onK10D yet) and they are usually in-depth. I will try to kep > my eye on > them and report when I can. We wait for your words :-) Cheers, Sylwek -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
