> From: Brian Walters <[email protected]> > > Quoting John Francis <[email protected]>: > >> So I'm in Austin this week, visiting family (and finishing off >> with a trip to the Circiuit of the Americas for the US Grand Prix). >> >> It's a bit disheartening - I'm surrounded by Nikons & Canons (at >> least for the folks who aren't using their iPhone cameras). I have >> only seen one other Pentax, and that was a 6x7. > > > That, sadly, is the way of the world these days. Even the two mates I > lunch with once a month insist on bringing their Canons. It's enough > to make me choke on the second glass of Shiraz... > > There also seem to be a few Ebay sellers lately who are divesting > themselves of all of their Pentax gear because they are 'changing > systems'. It was through one of these sellers that I recently got a > Tamron AF 90mm macro to replace my old MF version. > > -- > Cheers > > Brian
Despite our familiarity with the brand, Pentax has at best, 2% market share in the DSLR arena. You can do the the arithmetic and figure how many Pentax's you'll see vs. other brands. They're being eclipsed in every category of camera at the moment. No FF, no higher MP APS-C to compete with C/N, no EVIL or ILC to be taken seriously, no high end larger sensor compact. If/when they do, guess what, a year or two's worth of potential customer has already purchased another brand, and are no longer in the market. You can't find their DSLR's here in the USA at the major retail chains where many first time buyers are likely to shop, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Costco, Sams (at least not that I've been able to observe). Of course they're available online or at brick & mortar camera stores, but not where masses of people see them and think 'Wow, I'd like to have one of those' when they walk by. Tom C. -- 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.
