You cannot prove this and I cannot prove otherwise But I would bet the demographics of SLR users is Much older than P&S shooters because P&S has been Mainstream for the past 20 Years while SLRS faded Out at that time. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:58 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The JCO survey ROFLMFAO. The college photography market is buying cheap DSLR's like candy. The old fogey's are buying Hassy's because they can now afford one. I shoot regularly with the local flickr members. They're overwhelmingly young Canon shooters, with a helping of Nikon and Pentax shooters (And one lone Minolta guy) and damn near all digital. Most of the few film shooters started with digital and tried film after seeing one of the older types still shooting it. There is a smattering of older shooters in the group, but at 29 I'm older than 75% of that crowd. -Adam J. C. O'Connell wrote: > The kiddie (college) market is Digital P&S because they > Grew up on P&S. It's the old fogies who shoot > SLR because only they even know a SLR is in the > First place. > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > mike wilson > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:51 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: The JCO survey > > Mark Roberts wrote: > >> William Robb wrote: >> >>> Where is the economic advantage to them to put a feature on a camera > of >>> little benefit to a very small % of the user base? >>> One user being willing to buy a feature doesn't make a very rational >>> argument for inclding something, does it? >>> There is a much larger % of users who wouldn't use it, don't want to >> pay >> >>> for it, and may look elsewhere for a camera (read different brand) >> >> And in fact these are the people who represent the most desirable >> demographic for Pentax: The college-age crowd just getting into >> photography - who may become life-long Pentax users if that's the >> system they can be persuaded to buy into today. Despite the elitism we > >> older, more experienced photographers feel, we aren't a very > profitable >> long-term investment to pursue. > > With the greatest respect 8-) that's cobblers. Middle-aged and older > people are where the money is at. No kids (if they've got any > sense....), house paid for, at the peak of their earning potential. > They are the ones with money to throw at expensive hobbies and pastimes. > >> The people who Pentax most needs to attract weren't even *born* in > 1982 >> when the "A" series lenses were introduced! (Isn't that a scary > thought >> for a lot of us!) >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
