I agree. It can't be that expensive. They have just had a very sweet market up to now in which they were the only mfr. to offer such a product and therefore could charge what the market would bear.
I suspect that the difference between the two image stabilzation approaches only shows up with long heavy glass. No knowledge here, just guessing. Tom C. "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered." From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: any views on K100D vs. Canon Rebel XT (350D)? Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:22:07 -0400 I suspect that optical anti-shake is not really that expensive to manufacture. They probably just have a very high profit margin on them. You can probably expect the price to come down instead. It will be interesting to find out which is the better system, that probably will not be the market winner in the long run. -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Tom C wrote: > Only to be regained by the ability to sell more camera bodies and lower cost > high quailty lenses w/o the expensive AS built in. > > > > Tom C. > > "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or > numbered." > > > > From: Aaron Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: any views on K100D vs. Canon Rebel XT (350D)? > Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:20:21 -0400 > > > On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Tom C wrote: > > > I would expect Canon to implement in-body anti-shake at the soonest > > possible > > time. No information to that, just common sense. > > Won't that destroy the market for their pricey lenses with anti-shake > in them? > > -Aaron > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net