Re: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
Lots of places in the US are baning them as well... Alan Chan wrote: What has video to do with photography? ;-) Some people believed they will be one in the future. What has camera to do with cell-phone anyway? And now some places in Japan don't allow the use of cell-phone thanks to the

Re: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: Well, we have another advanced prosumer digicam with hot-shoe for flash and image stabilisation: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0407/04072104panasonicfz20.asp What I don't see is the price (or the need for a lens that only goes to 38 but reaches

Re: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread Sylwester Pietrzyk
on 22.07.04 14:13, Doug Franklin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's possible that many of the people that buy digital cameras, not being enthusiasts like we are around here, think of it more as digital than as camera. Maybe? As a matter of fact many young peoplewould probably consider new cell

Re: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread frank theriault
--- Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Maybe? As a matter of fact many young peoplewould probably consider new cell phones with buil-in camera as their main photo tool :-) Indeed, last year, more cameras were installed and sold in mobile phones, than were manufactured and sold

RE: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread Rob Studdert
On 22 Jul 2004 at 1:10, Alan Chan wrote: Isn't 1/2.5 CCD a little small for 5MP? Btw, Matsushita (National/Panasonic/Technics) is one of the biggest companies in Japan. Huge, consolidated net sales as of March 2003 , US$62,331 million Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110

Re: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread Sylwester Pietrzyk
On 2004-07-22, at 21:44, Jens Bladt wrote: Not quite true. I was shooting in a theatre recently. On both sides of me professional photographers was shooting with huge video cameras. Guess which name tag was on the video cameras: SONY! What has video to do with photography? ;-) -- Best regards

Re: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread Alan Chan
What has video to do with photography? ;-) Some people believed they will be one in the future. What has camera to do with cell-phone anyway? And now some places in Japan don't allow the use of cell-phone thanks to the built-in cameras. :-) Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan

Re: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread Alan Chan
National/Panasonic has a long history of making high quality camera flashes for many years (20+ I think) though they are quite hidden outside the asian markets. Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan Yes it is. But no this fact nor picture quality concerns me. Just the fact that photo company

RE: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
. -Original Message- From: Alan Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 July 2004 7:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pentax is still sleeping... What has video to do with photography? ;-) Some people believed they will be one in the future. What has camera to do with cell-phone

Re: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread Alan Chan
They don't have any photographic tradition and so it is sad that they are more popular and recognisable as digital-photo companies than Pentax... I guess business has always been this way (not just technology). When a business is getting old and has not found a way to evolve, they were left

RE: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread Alan Chan
There must be lots of them. I wonder how they got them back afterward. Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan Yup, I have been to a few concerts of late where they were doing body searches for camera phones. At Madonna they were particularly tough, and there was lots of little teenage girls

RE: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
: RE: Pentax is still sleeping... There must be lots of them. I wonder how they got them back afterward. Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan Yup, I have been to a few concerts of late where they were doing body searches for camera phones. At Madonna they were particularly tough

Re: Pentax is still sleeping...

2004-07-22 Thread Fiso_PENTAX
Hello All, serious users who don't want DSLR. It should have advanced features like in Canon G5 or Nikon 8700 and of course be black ;-) These bodies makes very positive impression on people. Some of my friends needed it and bought usually Canon G5 as it is even cheaper than Optio 555. Yes, like