Mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: (comments interspersed)
> I think most of us are comfortable with being backward-looking.
...snip
> There is a good chance that by the end of 2002, Pentax will be
> headed towards becoming a major player in the digital camera
> marketplace. There's a good chance that its digital products will
> multiply rapidly. This will start happening SOON, I'm guessing.
pro quality digital or entry level P&S cameras?
Pentax has the connections to sell the Wal-Mart & Best Buy
type of chains. What digital products do you mean?
> Happening probably much more gradually, there is a good chance
> that development of new film products will diminish to a trickle.
Not much meaning to somebody like me who's' favorite film is K64.
Maybe all the really good film has already been developed?!!
> Pentax is CHANGING. The next few years may well see a major
> reorientation of the company's products. There will be what
> amounts to a NEW PENTAX.
You mean they will no longer be a lens maker, but focus on bodies?
> How willing are each of you to come along for the ride? I'm not
> asking if you'll "switch over" to digital--I have yet to see it written
> that if you use digital, you can't also use K2s, LXs, and MZ-Ss.
> But WHERE are you in your understanding of the new ways of
> making pictures, and HOW DO YOU FEEL about becoming
> forward-looking as well as backward-looking, and...will you still
> BE LOYAL to Pentax when most new product introductions are
> digital???
Switch over to digital? I don't know. It is so unsatisfying.
My 35mm Pentax gear takes great images now.
I find myself less and less satisfied with my digital pix for the PUG.
These start out as better images in prints or slides, but degrade.
The scans, even when done professionally to a photo CD, are weak.
The final result just doesn't have the same qualities as the original.
Digital imaging is starting to leave me cold...
So do you want me to be loyal and buy a Pentax digital P&S?
Sure, that's fine for a little fun camera... One per household!
Now why would I buy anything else?
I think most of us are with Pentax for the quality pictures
produced by Pentax lenses.
Regards, Bob S.
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