Jomac wrote:
>The time and financial investment required by Pentax to "target" the "pro" >market would be impossible to accomplish and still hope to increase their >net profit. Including the increase in low end gear purchases by association. True, but lets not forget that Canon managed this. They used 20 years to break into the pro market. Back when they started out with pro pretensions they sold significantly fewer cameras than Pentax. There's no doubt that Canon had a long term market strategy and now benefit more than anyone else from the pro association. Pentax seems to lack any long term commitments and seems to think that the customer will automatically come to the product. >We enthusiasts could not provide Pentax with enough cash flow for such an >investment in any case. Too small a demographic. Perhaps, but I still think that market for fine connoisseur AF equipment exist. Hell, fine equipment in general. Now that Leica is bailing out and Contax is reduced to producing plastic AF cameras and plastic AF lenses that's no better in any regard to the pedestrian things Canon are producing, there definitely is opening a market niche. Besides, Pentax can be far more competitive than Leica and Contax in both prices and the sheer size of the system. I really hope Pentax continue to expand the Limited and FA* lenses and make matching bodies. P�l - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
