On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > P N Stenquist wrote:
>>> >>We'll see. I heard some things to the contrary from a reliable source >>just the other day. > > Your source is either kidding you or himself: In a year *someone* (my > money's on Sony) will have a FF camera for around $1600. The $1500 > price point won't be far behind. (That's what the ist-D sold for when > it was first released.) Of course I've been wrong before: I predicted > a sub-$2000 FF camera by mid 2010 and that camera came 8-9 months > *earlier* than my estimate... Sony's one product cycle off a $1600 FF body. I expect the A850 to hit that point by PMA 2011, if not sooner. And there may be an even cheaper A800 in the lineup this year (lower-MP sensor in an A850 body). > >>To draw some parallels, Mini survives as a marketer of small cars, >>without having flagships. VW had it's best years when it stuck to a >>segment. You don''t have to be full range to sell successfully. What's >>more, APS-C will continue to improve. There will always be an upgrade >>path. FF isn't absolutely necessary in that regard. Mini is BMW's compact brand, as SMART is for Mercedes. Both survive by being a product, not a product line. VW is VW AG's budget brand in the west and needless to say they d best when not competing with themselves (IE the low-end of the Audi spectrum). -- 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.
