On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Miserere <[email protected]> wrote: > Christine was complaining that the DA* 16-50mm was too expensive for > her when it cost $800, which is a bargain when you consider what > Canikonians pay for the standard f/2.8 zooms, and she's far from the > only one. The core Pentax userbase is a bunch of tight bastards who > spend money only at gun-point (I'm one of them) and I don't see them > (us) buying a $3,000 FF from Pentax.
All of this presumes that Pentax has no interest in expanding its market *beyond* the current "tight bastards" userbase. I think they should, and with the Ricoh brand now able to cover they low end of the market for them I expect they will. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
