Hi all
An interesting couple of pieces of random generated stuff.
Pentax sold 44% of all the SLRs sold in Australia last year. They also sold
48% of the P&S cameras sold here.
Where things get interesting is that I got told that within three years
Pentax expect to be selling many more digital cameras than film based ones,
and they won't be HP/ Pentax hybrids. I find it strange that they haven't
released the digital MZ-S, or a Pentax digital P&S developed by themselves
yet, and this sort of stuff is out there, but there you go.
I got shown a print from a Hasleblad whatever with the digital back on
Saturday. The print was about a metre x a metre, printed on a <insert
memory blank here>. At $70,000 AUD for the setup you'd expect it to be
decent. It was as good as any I've seen from a film based camera. I gather
the CCD in the Hasleblad digital back is 36mm x 36mm (from memory).
I think it is getting close to the time to think of selling my MZ-3 and Z-1p..
Cheers
Jon
Relax! Take life as it comes, you can't chase the sun, you can't race the wind
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