Even if it was meant offlist: Pentax has recently admitted that they are primarily an optical company. They are upgrading the optical production and helping Samsung to the market to get another K-mount camera producer, which in turn will increase the market for Pentax lenses.
I think this is a good idea, and as I'm here because of the great lenses I'm happy with the decision. With the 21mm none of the competition can compete in the number of primes and zooms for the DA format. DagT > > fra: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > dato: 2006/03/01 on PM 06:36:52 CET > til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > emne: Re: Some more new camera speculation > > Offlist so I don't get whammed. > > I really think that Pentax will not be around for ever in the consumer > camera market. I of course can be wrong. If I were a bettor, I'd give it a > 50/50 chance they sell the thing to Samsung. > > I think the 645D will have a hard time selling because 1) many photographers > that wanted a much higher resolution will have already went with offerings > such as the 16.7 MP Canon EOS 1DS and 2) the price will be too high. I > suspect Pentax will not make a heck of alot of money on it. > > I think Pentax can only hope to hold market share, not gain it. Growth in > DSLR's is already slackening as the market saturates. If they don't get > their product out in front of the buying public, they will lose market > share. At some point, not making money will make it so there is little left > for R&D to design and perfect new products. I think we already see that. > > Agreed, what we *know* about the new Pentax is very little. > > Tom > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > > >From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > >To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net> > >Subject: Re: Some more new camera speculation > >Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:21:43 -0600 > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" > >Subject: Re: Some more new camera speculation > > > > > >> > >>For me at least, I don't plan to throw any more money into Pentax. A lot > >>of the photography I enjoy doing is night shots, including quite shortly > >>astrophotography. Therefore a lower noise at higher ISO camera would be > >>of great benefit. > > > >No law sez you can't buy a camera body specifically for astrophotography. > >It can be whatever you want. > >The low noise thing is a non starter though. There is only the Canon 5D > >which may have noticably lower noise than the other stuff thats out there. > >Something I have found is that quite often what appears to be a noisy image > >on the screen turns out to be quite a nice image on paper. I think it has > >something to do with looking for problems at 200%, then looking at pictures > >at 20%. > > > >Also, no one has any idea of what sort of noise levels the new Pentax will > >have, since at this point, no one has seen images from it, what sort of > >moise reduction software will be built into it, or even know for sure what > >chip will be in it. > > > >William Robb > > > > > > >
