----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT - Mamiya and PhaseOne team up for new digital MedF
> Pentax did very well in the pro market with the 6x7. For more than three > decades. It was the > camera of choice among the New York fashion photogs. And it got wide use from > the big-buck > location shooters. The 645 did fairly well too, although I think it was more > of a MF upgrade > for advanced hobbyists. But the pro market is small, and it's probably not in > Pentax's best > interest to try and compete there, given the development and marketing costs. The big buck photographers you are so fond of using when you have a point to make probably count for 1/100 of 1% of the total pro market. They aren't statistically significant. In all my years shooting weddings, I never met another pro photographer shooting Pentax anything. The Mamiya 67 was the camera of choice for a huge number of studio and wedding shooters and wedding photographers were using lots of Mamiya 645s as well. I don't know if Mamiya was bigger than Hasselblad in the pro market, but I do know that Pentax pretty much wasn't in the game. William Robb -- 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.
