Hello, Comments interlined below.
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: > > They're really only competing in the APS-C arena and that's about it. > The 645D is just about out of everyone's price range including mine. > Was it ever relevant? The 645D is definitely relevant, just not to people like you or me. Same for the Q, which sells quite well in Japan. > > The K5 and derivatives may be solid cameras in their own right. Having > used Pentax for 20 years I'd be lying and stupid to say they didn't > make a product that delivered good results. True, but unfortunately the lack of higher end solution could be felt sometimes. > > Fact's are they have only about 2% of market share and predictions are > it will decline. Which facts? Whose predictions? The only 2%-like figure I saw some time ago (it was even less, about 1.5%) included compacts, and since units were counted it was mostly about compacts. I couldn't care less if Pentax were to abandon compacts altogether (but, Pentax, please: if you'll do it send me an Optio WG-2, first). About declining, nope, Pentax is actually heading in the opposite direction; because they're now Pentax Ricoh, and not some fund starved Hoya division. The next year, if we'll survive the imaginary apocalypse, should be very interesting IMO. > > If Pentax was working on a FF body they should certainly say so, > rather than hide it. As some have pointed out, the lack of a FF lens > line is problematic in that regard. Remember Nikon? They said nothing about working on the D3, until they've made it, am I right? For whatever it's worth, Pentax declared they are working on "full frame technologies" (while insisting a market ready product is nowhere near, and not making any promise). They agree with the FF lens line issue, but I'm sure that's something that could be fixed... in a decade or so. -- Best regards, Alex Sarbu -- 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.
