> What Pentax has to do is a balancing act: [snip] Waiting too long > means running the risk that people will bail out and switch to > other systems.
That is a distinctly real problem. (It won't happen to me, but it will happen to many, I suspect.) > What most people on this mailing list want isn't the first digital > SLR that will take their SMC Pentax lenses; it's the *second* (or > even third) one, which will be less expensive and have higher > resolution, of course ;-) This is true. However, to go a step further, many of us would buy that ~first~ K-mount DSLR ~AND~ the second or the third... > Pentax needs to make a product that's as good as they can, yet > loses them as little money as possible. A camera that becomes > available *soon* enough to keep too many people from switching > systems and yet which is developed *late* enough to incorporate > sufficient technology to prevent it becoming obsolete too quickly. Pentax, are you listening? Pentax...? Pentax...? Fred
