He leaves out an important point. Marketing. Part of the reason Canon
maintains it's market share is that it's available everywhere. I can go
into a Big Box Store, (Walmart, Sears, Target), an Electronics Store,
(Best Buy, PC-Richards, etc.), a buyers club, (Sams, B.J.'s, Costco). or
the only traditional camera store (Milford Camera, and it's still a hike
of 30 miles to be local), in my area, and actually handle a Canon. For
that matter I can handle an Olympus or a Nikon. In most cases we're
talking their bottom feeders for their EVIL or SLR lines, but heck I can
try them out and purchase them sometimes for less than I can get the
same model on line. My choice for Pentax is I get to buy them on line.
That's a failure of marketing. Especially, Iif I can believe them),
since the Camera store tells me they;d love to carry Pentax except the
rep. won't return their calls!
On 8/13/2012 8:28 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Aug 13, 2012, at 5:11 PM, David Parsons wrote:
They will 'leak' it in the weeks leading up to Photokina. It's all
very choreographed.
I ran across this interesting analysis by Falk Lumo:
http://falklumo.blogspot.com/2012/06/true-reasons-full-frame.html
I haven't checked the accuracy of his assertions on price per image quality,
but they seem reasonable.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith...@gmail.com> wrote:
Now that it seems to be officially discontinued, will the replacement for the
Pentax K-5 be unearthed at Photokina? Any concrete ideas of what the
replacement will be? The prices of K-5 bodies are now below $900, so the
replacement will have to be pretty special to justify the additional cost.
Regards,
Jeffery
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