Hi there. I agree with Bob here. This is the main hmmm difficulty about photo gear. It does not grow obsolete, it just *seems* to be. Very old by modern standard Takumar 50/1.4 is an excellent optic. Our fellow PDMLer Bruce Dayton is shooting with A 70-210/4 which is an old lens, and his results are stunning. Tom C is shooting his mighty landscapes with *istDS and no one recalls that when they're looking at his pictures.
In a certain sense we indeed must resist marketing zombification... Just my cents here. Paul, Rob, et al - please form two lines and start shaking hands. If your mind is not at rest, please compute how many hand shakes it would take so that all PDMLers have done so and are at peace with everyone else and themselves as well... Let's not fight over marketing, let's take photos and discuss them. Boris Bob Sullivan wrote: > Rob, > I worked for a former UNIVAC computer salesman. > He always insisted on pointing out that the computers > the company used for daily order processing were not obsolete, > they were just superceded...the market had something newer/better. > That's how I feel about my Pentax gear. > You can supercede it, but making it obsolete will take time and effort. > And given the legacy glass out there, bodies will be made to fill the needs. > (Remember, the electronics guys don't make any money on the glass. > They want to sell more electronics, not glass.) > Regards, Bob S. > > On 5/20/07, Digital Image Studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 21/05/07, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'm just tired of all those who spend so much time watching the sky >>> to see if it's falling. If I were inclined to dump my Pentax gear, I >>> would do it now. But I'm not going to. It works quite well, thank >>> you. A yawn is appropriate. >> It's not really, this is a conversation about Pentax on a Pentax >> discussion list. Try to exercise just a little empathy, granted >> Pentax's future is not entirely clear at the moment. However consider >> for just a moment that some others here may not be made of money and >> may have had to save and sacrifice to buy into the Pentax system and >> as such are simply concerned that it may not have a future. Surely >> scenarios are worth discussion. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
