You're right there's few if any perfect products. I have a 1 year old Garmin GPS that I consider a quite crappy product for the money I paid for it. You know the one. If' I'd have filled out my mfr's warranty card I'd have returned it long ago, but now I'm basically stuck with an over-priced, flawed piece of hardware.
By complaining or voting with my wallet the next time around, a company can get the message. If Pentax releases a flawed product there's nothing unfair with them taking a beating for doing so. I needn't preface the comment with (they're just like all the other companies that want my money, so let's not be to hard on them). On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > -------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > -- > 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.
