On Feb 21, 2007, at 12:12 PM, K.Takeshita wrote: > On 2/21/07 2:56 PM, "Godfrey DiGiorgi", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There have been so many people disparaging Sony in the still camera >> market over the past five to seven years I simply ignore this kind of >> stuff. >> >> Of course, many older photographic companies have gone out of >> business, but that's been happening constantly over the past 40 years >> anyway, it's just accelerated a bit in recent days due to the huge >> transition in technology. >> >> Good news is that I have a camera that works well, there are plenty >> of others available if this one stops working, and overall I don't >> care what axe I use as long as I get to chop the wood needed to cook >> dinner. > > Perhaps you should keep ignoring :-). It's just other persons' > view (and > often merely an entertaining topic) and anybody is free to ignore it. > Different people have different opinions. These other persons are > also > ignoring yet other people's topic. It is just that they do not > bother to > take time to come out and say that the topics are stupid and to be > ignored. > > :-)
Ken, I didn't say the topic was stupid or that everyone should ignore it. I said that *I* ignore it. I ignore it because I've heard the same things a bazillion times over and over again. I'm tired of hearing about it. That's *my* opinion. I hope I have your permission to ignore what I want to ignore. Sony will do what makes them profit, just like Pentax or Nikon or Leica or anyone else in BUSINESS *ought* to do. If you don't make a profit, you don't stay in business. They have a long history of being in the electronic imaging market. Since that's where photography is now, I expect them to be around there for a long time, making products. Whether they stay in the DSLR market is irrelevant to me at present ... I use Pentax equipment right now. Will they be making the products that I want to buy, personally? I don't know. I've owned several Sony cameras and, aside from the F828, they all produced very good photographs. I currently still have the R1 but my use of it has pretty much ceased since Pentax delivered the 10Mpixel body. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
