I see Pentax in as many places as Olympus.
Paul
On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:45 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Yes, but technical viability is different from sales viability. I
see a lot of E-450 and E-620, (OK, maybe E-5XX bodies), in big box
stores. However I've never seen a K-2000/K-m body in any of those
stores. It's difficult to comparison sell Josephine Six-Pack, on a
smaller lighter camera if you can't actually compare it to the
competition. People will buy what's available. In other words,
'Any idiot can buy a low end Canon/Nikon/Sony/Olympus DSLR, it takes
a special kind of idiot to seek out Pentax.
Adam Maas wrote:
I'm unsure of 4/3rds viability long-term. I suspect strongly that the
lower-end 4/3rds DSLR's will be killed off by Micro4/3rds and the
higher-end line will be on life support and exist mostly to fill in
the gaps for Micro-4/3rds users. 4/3rds simply hasn't been able to
capitalize on the promise of smaller lenses and cameras. As a
practical matter Pentax simply dominates the small DSLR segment,
offering a true compact system in the K-m/DA Limiteds, a compact
high-performance system with the K-7 and DA Limiteds where Olympus
actually has some of the larger available crop-format DSLR's (the
E-3,
E-30 and E-520 are all among the largest entries in their respective
segments, the E-450 and E620 are only the smallest when considered
without a mounted lens, the K-m/DA40 package is smaller than either
of
the compact E-series bodies paired with the 25 pancake, their
smallest
configuration)
I think that Micro4/3rds has a strong future ahead of it as it's
getting the chance to build serious market share before there's any
real competition in its segment.
-Adam
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Desjardins, Steve<desjard...@wlu.edu
> wrote:
I admit I'm more amenable to the "APS-C forever", unless it is
beaten out by 4/3. The point is that even though MF and LF
existed, the smaller 35 mm dominated because the IQ was good
enough. I think that's where APS-C or 4/3 is now. Of course,
"good enough" doesn't make sense to many on this list because
there is an intrinsic selection for folks with higher photographic
standards. OTOH, I think that non-slr cameras like the EP-1 and
the G1 are about to start eating up some of the enthusiast
market. If anything kills the APS-C DSLR it will be these.
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