i sincerely doubt that Canon paid the slightest attention to Pentax in their marketing plans for the 300D.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:25 PM Subject: Re: New Pentax SMC-DA 3.5-4.5/15-26 > And Pentax may have made a mistake by not pricing the *istD more > aggressively. Canon may have stolen the *istD's thunder by coming out > with the 300D at < $1000, which they may have thought the Pentax camera > was going to priced at. By not competing with the 300D, in which Pentax > would have been clearly superior to, it got lost in the noise. Lack of > deep pockets to fight that war may have been the reason. It probably > would have been unsustainable at those price levels, even for the > lucrative market share it might have given them.
