The largest camera chain in he UK is called Jessops. At the Isle of Man branch over Christmas they had four DSLRs in the window. One was a Canon, the others were Pentax. You had to go inside to see a Nikon.
John On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:49:43 -0000, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote: > >> However the competition obviously aren't too perturbed that >> Pentax maybe encroaching on their market (maybe because they aren't), >> they seem to be maintaining their higher pricing and still making >> sales and obviously far greater profits. >> > > I don't know what the international numbers are, but locally Pentax > is definitely taking a bigger piece of the pie than ever before. All > local camera stores are now selling the K cameras. Very few of them > sold the *ist series cameras. One of the largest stores squeezed down > their Nikon and Canon display area and added a Pentax area of equal > size. I was in there yesterday to purchase a new printer and asked > about the Petnax sales. The counterman I talked to said they were > selling very well and that the Canon rep had complained about the > loss of shelf space. > Paul > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
