On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:57:28 +0100 "Bob W" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So far no one has remarked that India a very large place with a > > population of more than twice North Ameraica's has 40 whole Pentax > > users! Well done Pentax. (Not making fun of you Subash, making fun > > of Pentax marketing, which is really to easy). > > Have a look at the way wealth is distributed in India and it may be > easier to understand. Maybe there are only 41 people in India who can > afford a Pentax. Bob, i realise that's partly said tongue in cheek and while true, that's not the whole story. true that 'modern' capitalist economy has only made worse traditional imbalances (which were/ are quite bad). the number of new shiny audis, bmws, porsches and mercs on the road (all of them have factories here now except porsche i think) is practically obscene given the large and visible number of people living under what the government euphemistically describes as the 'poverty line'. as in modern democracies elsewhere, the government seems to gift away vast swathes of national resources rather cheaply to corporations to the benefit of a few individuals directly and the short-term benefit of the middle-classes indirectly. the number of kick-back scams in the last two years alone has been unbelievable. all that is depressing no doubt. but like i said that's not the whole story. dslrs, why even cameras, were unaffordable once. my first ever camera was a digital p&s which i bought at the age of 42 and i bought myself my first dslr four years later (the *ist DS). it's not that bad now. there is a huge and rising middle-class population with money to throw around (about 500 million at the last count; not too sure of the figures). nikon, canon and sony are everywhere. but pentax can be got only through the grey market and if anything goes wrong, you are on your own. from what i can see, the k-x seems to have brought in more people to the fold than any other new pentax dslr.... -- 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.
