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From: "Tom C"
Subject: Re: Photokina observations...
A person of any age should not 'outgrow' what is a basic operating
aspect of a camera.
Why not?
When I was 12 and got my first camera, I inherited a mid 50s era Fuji
Rangefinder. Within a year I had outgrown enough of the basic operating
aspects of the camera to feel that it just wasn't doing what i wanted it to
do any longer, so I looked at my Dad's camera usage and decided that he
wouldn't miss his Spotmatic, provided it was at the back of his closet on
Christmas morning and the day before we went to Montana for summer vacation.
Having said that, Pentax seemed to realize that the AF accuracy of the K10
was flawed, but they weren't very able to do anything about it from a
consumer use perspective. This is why the K20 has user adjustable focus
biasing.
The question is, should they have released it that way or held back on the
camera for an indeterminate amount of time until it was the perfect camera?
All the while realizing that every day they held up the release they were
losing sales to other companies, and realizing that their competition was
also releasing products that were flawed in one way or another.
How many lens sales do you suppose Sigma got because they held up the
release of the 60-250 for as long as they did?
William Robb
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