Re: Why and How I switched to Canon (for those who care) long

[Paul Stenquist]

Pentax will have at least an APS upgrade when the time is right. Don't 
forget, the big seller, the *istDS, has only been on the market for a 
short time. You don't release an upgrade until a substantial amount of 
your owner base is ready to move up. In the car biz, I think they shoot 
for 40%. I think we'll see an APS camera by this time next year. I'm 
also quite confident that it will be at least 10mp, because you have to 
motivate the upgrade.
Paul
On Apr 29, 2005, at 8:13 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:

Unfortunately, I think that the pessimists here are right, the most 
optimistic thing I see coming out of this
is the next MZ-D...

Rob Studdert wrote:
On 29 Apr 2005 at 18:57, Mark Roberts wrote:

Sorry, but you lost me here. How have we seen that Pentax has no 
plans
for full-frame? Why would the release of lenses covering the small 
frame
be an indication of this when Canon has several reduced frame lenses?
Does anyone really believe Pentax wouldn't be willing to obsolete 
those
lenses (and have us replace them, of course) in the future?

Pentax probably won't have any choice especially as they career off 
in digital 645 land. I don't want to be pessimistic but it's looking 
worse for them on every release from Canon and Nikon, only a 
blinkered Pentax devotee could call it otherwise IMHO.

Congrats Christian, it sounds like you are now much more content with 
your kit, now you can just go out and enjoy shooting with a future 
:-)

Cheers,
Rob Studdert
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