I'm just curious... does Nikon, Kodak, and Canon really produce their "own" DSLRs??? In this day and age of manufacturing, it always seems that people are outsourcing the manufacturing to a supplier(s) for experience/quality/cost reasons... so couldn't it be possible that there is some company out there that really produces these cameras for Canon, Nikon, and/or Kodak and Pentax might just go to them to manufacture their camera? In which case the supplier should have some experience if they've already produced one DSLR for another big name camera company like Nikon or Canon????
Just curious... any ideas anyone? Gabe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Rubenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 5:28 PM Subject: Re: Pentax WILL produce a digital SLR! The Kodak cameras were expensive. I don't see why quoting the Canon price isn't fair. It's on the B&H site and they are taking orders. Repeating a price, based on speculation, to make a point is stretching things, but I don't think that that's the case here. One of the things that the high prices of the first DSLRs reflect is the first time development costs. It costs more to develop something you haven't done before than succeeding improved models. There is a real learning curve for a company when it tries to do a completely new product. Having worked for a high tech company for almost 20 years, I've seen this happen many times. Pentax will have a hard time being price competetive with a first DSLR compared to the more experienced makers. --- Mark Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Didn't photojournalists used to buy big, fat Kodak DSLR's based on Nikon and > Canon bodies for tens of thousands of dollars? Seems like prices only really > dropped when Nikon put out the original D1 a couple of years ago. > > I got the $7K figure from price rumors related to the never-introduced > Pentax full-frame digital SLR. BTW, no fair quoting prices for the Canon > D60 and Nikon D100! They aren't even available yet! :-) > > --Mark Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.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 . - 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 .
