Hm... With the recent woes over the absence of the DA 14 and FA 16-45 lenses from the market, and the diminishing range of the Pentax lens lineup (where did the FA*80-200/2.8 go?), I would say Pentax' problem is the other way around. Making a couple of nice digicams isn't enough. There has to be a decent lineup of lenses *in production* to support whatever digital cameras they produce.
Jostein ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caveman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: Deegetal Schmeedgital > In the good old days of film, what eventually mattered was the lens and > film quality. Except the case of some very particular applications, the > camera body was just a box holding the lens in front of the film. Put a > standard 50/1.7 lens on the simplest cheapest body, use a tripod, and > you get the same image quality as the next "pro" guy using a $3000 > camera body. Yes he has a better viewfinder some extra gadgets and so on > but the image quality is the same. > > With the advent of digital, bodies and lens are of equal importance. The > sensor type and MP, the image processing algorithms, everything is as > important as the lens. If you want to be succesful in digital, making > nice lenses ain't sufficient. > > Seems that this is not very clear for P. > >
