Yes, but technical viability is different from sales viability. I see a
lot of E-450 and E-620, (OK, maybe E-5XX bodies), in big box stores.
However I've never seen a K-2000/K-m body in any of those stores. It's
difficult to comparison sell Josephine Six-Pack, on a smaller lighter
camera if you can't actually compare it to the competition. People will
buy what's available. In other words, 'Any idiot can buy a low end
Canon/Nikon/Sony/Olympus DSLR, it takes a special kind of idiot to seek
out Pentax.
Adam Maas wrote:
I'm unsure of 4/3rds viability long-term. I suspect strongly that the
lower-end 4/3rds DSLR's will be killed off by Micro4/3rds and the
higher-end line will be on life support and exist mostly to fill in
the gaps for Micro-4/3rds users. 4/3rds simply hasn't been able to
capitalize on the promise of smaller lenses and cameras. As a
practical matter Pentax simply dominates the small DSLR segment,
offering a true compact system in the K-m/DA Limiteds, a compact
high-performance system with the K-7 and DA Limiteds where Olympus
actually has some of the larger available crop-format DSLR's (the E-3,
E-30 and E-520 are all among the largest entries in their respective
segments, the E-450 and E620 are only the smallest when considered
without a mounted lens, the K-m/DA40 package is smaller than either of
the compact E-series bodies paired with the 25 pancake, their smallest
configuration)
I think that Micro4/3rds has a strong future ahead of it as it's
getting the chance to build serious market share before there's any
real competition in its segment.
-Adam
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Desjardins, Steve<[email protected]> wrote:
I admit I'm more amenable to the "APS-C forever", unless it is beaten out by 4/3. The
point is that even though MF and LF existed, the smaller 35 mm dominated because the IQ was good
enough. I think that's where APS-C or 4/3 is now. Of course, "good enough" doesn't make
sense to many on this list because there is an intrinsic selection for folks with higher
photographic standards. OTOH, I think that non-slr cameras like the EP-1 and the G1 are about to
start eating up some of the enthusiast market. If anything kills the APS-C DSLR it will be these.
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