> Nothing to do with Pentax, but a surprising insight into camera > marketing. > > I dropped into the dealer where I buy Olympus equipment yesterday and > asked when they would have an E-3 for me to look at and hold. They > said they were only getting one, and it's already sold. Apparently > Olympus are only sending 44 E-3s to the whole of the UK. That doesn't > sound very ambitious to me.
This is actually pretty common with new pro-end camera releases. They trickle out to stores at first, because pro photographers with connections tend to get them first. I used to see this happen all the time whenever a new 1D-whatever or D2-whatever came out. We'd get maybe three or four the first few months, and other stores in the area would fare the same or worse. You can blame it on two things, I think: high demand from the legions of pro photographers out there, and initially slow production speed at the factory. John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
