Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Peter wrote: looks like the *ist D will have a strong following. REPLY: I find that you are very selective about this. When I red the discussion about the *ist D on dpreview yesterday, the essence was that $1500 was too cheap for the Canon and that Pentax would have a hit on their hands if

Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
Taz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to the list and have been spending the evening looking at some of your posts. The introductions of the *ist and *ist-D seem to be bringing in an unusually large number of new names to PDML. Welcome aboard, Taz. You wrote: I have Minolta and Pentax gear...

Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
Ah--Minolta autofocus. Never mind. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
From what I've seen, people may be buying SLRs, but they aren't using them on a regular basis. I seldom see another SLR at public events. I don't see them out on the street. When I shoot a school event, I'll see maybe three or four other SLRs. One will be autofocus; the rest are vintage models

Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Taz
Hi Paul Yep my Minolta gear is autofocus2 700si's and one 9xi(currently sent into minolta for repairs..ouch!!!). But as your comment about what your seeing on the street, I think I've been seeing mostly digital PS and a few 35mm PS. My friends were all digital PS as was I for a while,

Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Peter Alling
I guess all is not right with the world. At 02:46 PM 3/2/2003 +0100, you wrote: Peter wrote: looks like the *ist D will have a strong following. REPLY: I find that you are very selective about this. When I red the discussion about the *ist D on dpreview yesterday, the essence was that $1500

Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Peter Alling
I just had an interesting encounter. I walked down to the waterfront to take advantage of the fading light and make a few photos of a small skiff that is usually tied up there. I wasn't the only photographer there a fairly nice fellow was using a Nikon n65 (65n I can never remember, oh well),

Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-01 Thread Peter Jansen
Looks like the *ist D will have a strong following. Again from www.dpreview.com. Look at the Discussion for Minolta DSLR: http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1024message=4493606 This post is good: Is it me, or does the new Canon 10D and the new Pentax *ist look pretty good? I'm