> Digital is the Rubicon that they must cross. I worry that Pentax's slow > adoption of the bayonet mount, and slow adoption of AF, presage a slow > adoption of digital.
I believe that the conservative Pentax users were much slower at getting into AF than Pentax were... Quite a large bit of the userbase still refuses to make the switch from MF to AF. Perhaps it was a mistake by Pentax to retain the backward compatibility and supporting the MF mount. Canon didn't, and loyal Canon users just had to switch because their mount wasn't supported any more. Same thing with Minolta, and now even Nikon does it with the new bodies not supporting older lenses with only a mechanical coupling of aperture, and the new G series won't function on F90 and other bodies with no manual selection of aperture on the body. So, the old users just have to switch... quite clever actually. > Failure to move swiftly > into digital may be the death knell of the Pentax system The new Optio range is doing very well (especially in Sweden) and this success helps strengthening Pentax as a name. Now Pentax isn't just in a few photo stores, with the Optio range - Pentax has expanded it's dealerbase with computer stores. This is all very good. It's nice to see "Topseller" at Cyberphoto's homepage and "Best digital" at Sekvencia in large adverts in swedens most popular and widely read newspapers. Pentax Scandinavia doesn't have to promote the Optio range to the consumers, their dealers does it for them. Very nice. I only wish this could happen with the MZ-serie too... Best regards, Roland - 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 .
