> > John Francis wrote: > > > Look at the film he loaded into the *ist; Kodak Gold 800. > > I agree, but... > > > It isn't a > > bad film, but it's definitely aimed at the tourist snapshot market. > > That's the audience this article is written for. > > Which will buy a digital P&S instead of the *ist D. > Almost useless article, conceived the way it is. > We are not in the Seventies, when everybody bought a SLR. > Snapshooters buy a zoom compact nowadays.
I'm not so sure. I'd bet that most sales of the Canon 300D (and a fair few of the Nikon D-70) are sales of a body plus a kit lens, and that lens never gets taken off the camera. (After all, the same was true of many film SLR purchases). True, many snapshooters buy a zoom compact, but I don't think the number of serious photographers has increased enough to account for the sales of the budget DSLRs. Nikon seem to be predicting sales of 1 million/year for the D-70, and I'm sure Canon are doing a great deal better than that with the 300D.
