Sorry for the second Mike Johnston reference of the morning, but after finding the first one I went browsing through his blog and found this, which, IMHO, is an even better one. On the subject of primes: http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/2006/09/smart-and-dumb-prime-lenses-103_16.html
Really insightful stuff here, especially how products that, in themselves, lose money for their manufacturers, end up helping the company *make* money by bringing in customers for other products. In particular I noted how he says people will buy into a camera system because of the availability of products in that system that they're never going to buy ;-) -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
