> if i don't sell at a loss and wait until the lenses are worth something > reasonably close to what i paid for them, that's going to be a couple of > years after Pentax stops making high end lenses. if they intend to stay in > the 35mm-ish DSLR business, they have to announce a reasonable upgrade for > the *istD. > > Pentax lenses, if you get the higher end ones, are still at least as good as > their competition and sometimes much better. most of my lenses are FA* and > A*, with the set of macros and Limiteds thrown in. i just want a body that > uses them well enough to accomplish what i see every day from ordinary Nikon > and Canon shooters using their 20Ds and D70s. every digital camera vendor is > trying to move up in the cost and feature chain because those are the only > cameras that make money. why is Pentax moving the opposite direction?
They're working on a new body for next year that will give a lot of people on this list something to smile about. Tom Reese
