Re: More rumours on Baby-D!

2004-06-03 Thread Dario Bonazza
DAJ? A crippled DA? Getting rid of lenses maybe? Dario > They had better hire a second lens assembler in Vietnam. They had also > better come out with the DAJ 18-55 f3.4-4.5 for $100 or so.

Re: More rumours on Baby-D!

2004-06-03 Thread Tom C
SR that doesn't have ISO 50 or 100 settings... do they deserve to be taken seriously (MF aside)? How long are they going to be in the camera market at all? Tom C. From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More rum

Re: More rumours on Baby-D!

2004-06-03 Thread Sylwester Pietrzyk
on 03.06.04 17:37, Joseph Tainter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Production of 20,000 per month? At last report, Pentax had sold only > 20,000 of the *ist D. Yup, but *istD is almost two times more expensive (MSRP) than rumoured Baby D... Most people still takes price in consideration. If they have

Re: More rumours on Baby-D!

2004-06-03 Thread Tom C
Ditto! Tom C. From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More rumours on Baby-D! Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 08:41:09 -0700 How about a few nice, fast primes that are appropriately sized for the camera. These cheap, slow

Re: More rumours on Baby-D!

2004-06-03 Thread Shel Belinkoff
How about a few nice, fast primes that are appropriately sized for the camera. These cheap, slow zooms do neither the camera nor the medium justice. Crap in, crap out ... crummy DOF, distortion galore ... what has photography come to when mediocre is something to which one can aspire and excellen

Re: More rumours on Baby-D!

2004-06-03 Thread KT Takeshita
On 6/3/04 9:57 AM, "Sylwester Pietrzyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are some new rumours on Polish www: > http://twojepc.pl/news_wiecej.php?id=7524 > > In short I can translate it as: > "This fall Pentax will present new, cheap DSLR at the price of around > 100 Yen (almost 900$). Produ

Re: More rumours on Baby-D!

2004-06-03 Thread Joseph Tainter
Production of 20,000 per month? At last report, Pentax had sold only 20,000 of the *ist D. If they will produce 20,000 per month and expect to sell 100,000 by next March, that means it may already be in production. They had better hire a second lens assembler in Vietnam. They had also better c

More rumours on Baby-D!

2004-06-03 Thread Sylwester Pietrzyk
There are some new rumours on Polish www: http://twojepc.pl/news_wiecej.php?id=7524 In short I can translate it as: "This fall Pentax will present new, cheap DSLR at the price of around 100 Yen (almost 900$). Production run will be around 2 pieces/month. Pentax expects to sold 10 by th