> -----Original Message----- > From: Iren & Henry Chu [mailto:irenhenry@;hotmail.com] > > In fact, Pentax has just release a fabulous new film slr in > Japanese market:
It's a piece of junk with 2 segment metering(MZ-60). > I don't believe Pentax is going to completely re-new their SLR camera > line-up in a sudden with three new camera. They haven't done anything > dramatic in the past 10 years when the SLR market then was growing. There > is no reason to expect they will do it now or in the future, especially they > are saying that they think the market is shrinking. Doing so will be a > commercial suicide. According to the original Japanese news report, Pentax > was quoted as saying to cut their current line-up of 6 cameras down to 3 > cameras. They have not said they are going to replace them with 3 new > cameras. Interesting that the MZ-60 has a new control interface with wheels etc rather than being based on the MZ-30/7/6/L body which was an evolution of the MZ-50. I wonder if all the effort that goes into designing a completely new layout was worthwhile because it will form the basis of a new lineup? > In their press release for MZ-60, they said they are manufacturing 15,000 > MZ-60 per month, 5,000 more than MZ-L! This is roughly equals to 10% of > film SLRs manufactured in the world. So we are going to see this fabuluous > camera continuously in the Pentax line-up for a while. This camera will do a lot to put people off Pentax when it comes to upgrade time...
