On 8/19/2014 7:46 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Brian Walters wrote:
A new DSLR on the way?
http://www.photographybay.com/2014/08/19/pentax-k-s1-leaks-out/
Let the whining commence!
A followup. The grip looks uncomfortable, the leds look unstealthy, the
the overall design looks unintegrated.
Maybe this is because the K500 is selling poorly. It could be, that
Pentax is trying a more out there design to attract customers but they
did that before. The K30 which was fairly radical looking, was evolved
into the K50/K500 twins, which adopted a more conventional look, kind of
like a smoothed out K-5/K-3 but not as curvy and bulbous as the K10/20D
designs. That didn't work so now they're trying this. (Let's not talk
about the K-01, I could write an essay on that, and have). Isn't a
definition of madness doing the same thing over and over and expecting
different results?
Unfortunately the problem isn't the design of the cameras, Pentax
designs are quite competitive, but in most of the US still one of the
biggest markets for Cameras, you can't actually see one in person.
Pentax has to get their entry level cameras into big box stores. I can
see most of what Canon and Nikon sell in Best Buy, hell I can see two or
three different Canons and Nikons in Sam's Club, (a discount
wearhouse/buyers club). You can buy a Rebel or D3002 as an impulse
purchase, it takes effort to buy a Pentax. If it's going to take
effort, why buy an entry level camera.
I'll bet that Pentax is the only manufacturer of DSLRs that in the US at
least sells more units of it's Flagship camera than it does of it's
entry level camera.
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