John Celio wrote: >> 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 >
That and much of the stock also goes to the large retailers like B&H or Adorama. -Adam -- 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.
