On 13 Oct 2002 at 8:13, William Robb wrote: > At the risk of being tiresome, if not having a large format rig > was costing you money, you'd buy one, and would accept that > Pentax doesn't support it, because they never have supported it. > Why is a digital SLR any different?
Because it should only be a like a media change (ie add a digi-body) not a format change (add body and lenses). I've got a bloody MF rig and I accept that I can't use my 35mm lenses on it. However the convention in DSLR development in the major camps is that neither Nikon or Canon users had to dump their existing kit to add the scope of digital image capture to their kits. So this is why they aren't whining, they just have to pout about the competition having 5% more pixels, poor sods. The fact is that we all know that we can add another system or we can pack up and sell out but either may be expensive propositions that for some of us make the prospect of a $4k digital Pentax body sound cheap and far less time consuming. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html
