Mark wrote: <snip>
> > 2002 will be the crunch year. Any camera manufacturer without a digital body for > it's 35mm lens line will be getting out of the 35mm SLR business whether they > want to or not. It'll be interesting to see what happens with Minolta. I haven't > heard anything about them producing a digital body for their system. Will they > be content with point-and-shoot film cameras and high-end all-in-one digicams? > Might not be a bad way to go from a profit standpoint. But because of this > uncertainty, right now I wouldn't even *think* of buying a high-end Minolta body > unless I already had a huge investment in Minolta lenses. Even then, I'd think > very hard first. > <snip> Curious why you think next year. I don't think Pentax will do it by then, just a gut feeling. I'm not sure I'm ready to jump on the digital ship at the 6-mp level deck anyway. From conversations way back, 30-mp is the resolution crossover point where digital comes close to film resolution-wise. I know it doesn't make a heck of a lot of difference if 4x6 is all one wants. At a raw image size of 30 mp, I'd hate to the kind of memory and disk space one would need to blow the thing up,at home. Look for this to happen... (Tom predicts the future). Why should/would most camera manufacturers care if we can use our existing 35mm lenses with digicams? If film is going by the wayside like a greased-pig on a ski-slope, and we either can't get it, can't get it processed, or are just being bowled over by the digital tsunami, the thing for them to do is come out with all new cameras, all new lens mounts, all new lenses and sell everything anew, not just bodies. This compatibility thing could just be for the short-term to get everyone to "buy in". Once film is dead in the coffin, the whole picture changes. Tom C. (always looking for the bright side) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
