I don't know I... I think a lot of 1st time DSLR buyers are wowed by the size & weight. It looks like a pro camera so now I "feel like a pro". I know someone with some Nikon model that doesn't know the first thing about
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:28 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:41:12PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> 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.) > > Not quite - the release price was $1695, which is what I paid for mine > from one of the big mail-order houses (B&H, Adorama, and the like). > > But, in any case, I don't see the threat to the APS-C cameras coming > from the upper end - quite the contrary. There are already several > very capable 4/3 and Micro-4/3 cameras on the market. It's hard to > convince a first-time buyer that the extra size and weight of the > DSLRs is worthwhile (although the entry-level DSLRs do still have > a bit of a price advantage). > > I see the advanced amateur consumer market moving to the smaller, > lighter format, while the APS-C cameras will remain at the low end > of the prosumer market. "FF" won't replace APS-C; they each have > their own niche to fill, and each performs its own job better. But > if the market segment isn't large enough to support more than one > competing format I suspect the eventual survivor will be APS-C. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
