Paul sometimes I just love your rose coloured perspective. Cheers,
Dave On 5/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would guess that if Pentax folds, someone will make a K-mount body. The > demand is built in. It would be easy, for example, for Sony to make a K-mount > version of their camera. I can't see the huge installed base of Pentax gear > being ignored. It's a bonanza for someone out there. > Paul > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Digital Image Studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 21/05/07, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rob, > > > I worked for a former UNIVAC computer salesman. > > > He always insisted on pointing out that the computers > > > the company used for daily order processing were not obsolete, > > > they were just superceded...the market had something newer/better. > > > That's how I feel about my Pentax gear. > > > You can supercede it, but making it obsolete will take time and effort. > > > And given the legacy glass out there, bodies will be made to fill the > > > needs. > > > (Remember, the electronics guys don't make any money on the glass. > > > They want to sell more electronics, not glass.) > > > > I agree to an extent though I suspect our DSLR bodies are a lot more > > fragile and will be significantly less long lived than their film > > brethren due to mechanical/electronic failure more than sheer > > obsolescence. I really don't expect my lenses or any one else's to > > become obsolescent over night, some I've had for over 20 years and I'd > > hope that they'll be useful for at least that again. State of the art > > bodies to mount them on would help though. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
