"Jan van Wijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:12:44 -0500, Mark Roberts wrote:
>>I certainly wouldn't have spent a >>thousand dollars on a new body (MZ-S) to go with my existing lenses if I thought >>I'd have to replace them soon to go with a different brand digital SLR. I just >>bought Ed Mathews 43/1.9 Limited but that's going to be my last Pentax lens or >>body purchase until I'm confident that there'll be a compatible digital body in >>the near future. I can't afford to go down a dead end path. (I don't think I am, >>by the way; I'm just being cautious.) > >I feel exactly the same, I was planning on buying the 3-lens limited set (31, 43 and >77) >for my MZ-3 / PZ1 / LX, and waiting for the MZ-D to use them on later. >I will certainly wait for a formal announcement of a new Pentax Digital SLR now! I'm sure we're not the only ones who have deferred purchases until the situation is clarified. >I hope it will be a 4 to 5Mp, with a focal-multiplier of 1.3 or 1.4. >If that is offered for US $3000 to $3500 with other specs comparable to the MZ-D, >I will get one for sure ... I won't buy one until full-frame version is available, but the release of any digital SLR - even with a smaller-than-full-frame CCD - would give me enough confidence to resume buying Pentax gear in general (a 15mm would be first on my list: I would have killed for one today!) What's interesting is that within two or three years we'll see people just getting into photography (just getting serious about it, anyway) *starting out* with a digital SLR, having moved up from an all-in-one digicam. Then later, when they consider *film* (it'll happen eventually!), they'll look for a film camera that's compatible with the lenses they already have for their digital. Just the opposite of the situation we have now. -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
