>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.
But then Canon is a much bigger company which has plenty of resources from other sectors. >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. Whether Pentax is more competitive than Leica or Contas is rather subjective. Let's don't forget that LEICA and CONTAX are like Benz and BMW. Yes, Honda is not bad, but it is no Benz, BMW or Porsche no matter how good Honda is. It's not just performance, but the "image" and "name" too. regards, Alan Chan _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com - 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 .
