On Feb 14, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: > Margus Männik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.camera-pentax.jp/new/index.html > > About as exciting as the newest Ferrari, luxury watch, or whatever. > > I'd gladly have scraped together the money for a Pentax DSLR with a > 24x36 mm sensor. This 645 is well beyond my reach. > > Besides, who'd want to buy a pro camera from a company that has just > reduced its European customer service to NHS level? > > Put a Leica or Contax label on it and they might be able to sell a few > to the usual crowd of dentists or surgeons with lots of black money that > they can't spend on cars or boats because it would leave traces. But > Pentax? They've never heard of that. > This is a workhorse of a camera. It's not a Leica that some would wear like a gold watch. Pro shooters have heard of Pentax. At one time, most of the NY fashion photographers were shooting Pentax 6x7, and the 645 had a good following among location shooters. If the 645D comes in under 10K, it will sell well. No, most of us won't buy one. We're largely advanced amateurs and lightweight pros, but there is a market for a camera like the 645D. > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de > > -- > 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.
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