(crap keyboard) - photography. It's not FF, but then they don't even know enough to understand the difference. The other day they asked me what the LCD panel on the top of my *ist D was for. :-)
Tom On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
