On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:34 AM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> I've been finding those kinds of deals quite often lately, it's not >> digital so no one wants it. >> On a related note, I just got back from visiting friends who just bought a >> \new digital SLR. Target was selling the Canon Digital Rebel XS with the >> 18-55 IS kit lens for $250. A price that apparently was too good to pass >> up. Kind of surprising since my friend was a die hard OM-1 film user. Oh >> and he picked up the Canon IS 70-300 Kit lens for an additional $200, Target >> tossed in a $100 gift card, and Canon branded kit bag to carry the camera >> both lenses and a few odds and ends... >> >> Just to bring it back on topic, I don't see how Pentax can hope to compete >> with that. > > It doesn't. It will pick him up after he gets ticked off with everything > being out of focus and he thinks about his next purchase. >
Or when they decide to try out RAW and find their camera slowing down massively. I don't understand why Canon crippled the XS the way they did. -- 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.
