Well, you raise an interesting point. Many talk of jumping ship, but not too many actually do. What happens is you have to differentiate between a justifiable need and a want. When you look at your current investment in a system, then you really start to figure out the real needs. There can be needs that are not satisfied by a particular manufacturer. For most 'normal' hobby level shooting, every manufacturer provides more than enough features. But for specialized situations where a Pro would be paid, a particular manufacturer may not have just the right features or gear.
I think many times, it is the envy issue. It would be nice to have the brand/gear that everyone else looks up to rather than having the brand/gear that most people either don't know or have a mediocre opinion of. I think many are saying that Pentax needs to provide everything every other manufacturer does so they can be more respected. -- Best regards, Bruce Friday, March 20, 2009, 2:54:52 PM, you wrote: ft> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >> I wouldn't blame just the manufacturers. The latest wave of camera users >> seems to never be satisfied either, always wanting the latest new camera in >> the hopes that it will turn some magic on and make their pictures glow. >> Forlorn hopes. Most never find out what their current equipment can actually >> do. ft> I don't use 90% of what my *istD does (in terms of "features"), and ft> hell, by the standards of most digital photographers the D is an ft> obsolete dinosaur. I guess it's nice to know that it does all sorts ft> of things that I'll never use, or that I'll use maybe once just out of ft> curiosity, but my point is that I really think that most photographers ft> never use most of those "features" either. This means that they'll ft> never use most of the "new features" on the latest cameras either. ft> Hell, I see a picture I want to take, point the camera, hit the ft> shutter release and it takes a photo. What more do I need? What more ft> do most people need? ft> But I've read on this list how dissatisfied certain people are with ft> what Pentax has to offer. "If they don't go full-frame I'm jumping ft> ship." "Pentax couldn't give me what I want so I unloaded my gear and ft> went Canon/Nikon/Oly/Whatever." ft> Is the demand created by customers or the manufacturers? Do we need ft> more pixels because our photos aren't good enough or because we're ft> told that a 24 megapixel body's now available for our photographing ft> pleasure? Do we want the latest or are we told we want the latest? ft> Hmmmmm.... ft> cheers, ft> frank -- 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.
