On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Warren Kato <[email protected]> wrote: > With Canon, Nikon and now Sony filling the FF niche, there is little > chance that a fourth-comer can make a successful venture in this small > market. The big deal with the new Panasonic G1 is that it is creating > a new niche for itself ie. a smaller interchangeable lens camera. The > med format niche is filled with expensive backs for the Hassy and > others. Pentax has inadvertently kept it's lens out of the back market > because of the insert making it difficult if not impossible to devise > an interchangeable back/insert for it. However, if they can create the > landscape/nature med format digital at a decent cost, then they will > have created a new niche. For whatever reason the Mamiya digital is > not doing well with its new owners in charge. I don't know the details > of this. > > I have about 10 P645 lens on the shelf waiting for the new 645D. Or I > might just return to the new Ektar 100. > > Warren >
Warren, I'm not sure where you heard that the Mamiya digital is doing poorly, but its not. Mamiya's biggest problem is inability to fill demand for its backs. And the partnerships with Leaf and PhaseOne are paying off, bigtime. If anything its Hassy which has issues now (Hassy's decision to go to a closed system with the H3D is pushing the rest of the market over to mamiya bodies as the only other option, the Hy6 bodies from Leaf, Sinar and Rollei, are too expensive and large). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
