John, 1. It's only a tool. You should get over your Pentax loyalty. 2. Yes, there will be $$$ pain involved. 3. You sure you can't make do with your Pentax stuff? Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:46 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > Correction: "What ever happened to Pentax?" > > From: Bob Sullivan >> >> John (and Walt too), >> >> This forum is my substitute for holding a new Pentax in my hands. >> I've bought everything mail order, sight unseen. >> That's a *ist DS, K-10, K-20, K-7, K-5 & K-5IIs. >> Once you are locked in by the investment in lenses, you're locked in. >> You go for the best price you can. And that's mail-order, >> even 5 years ago when the *ist D was in local camera shops. >> >> You're a hobbyist, not a pro. >> What do you NEED to do with that new camera that you can't do right now? >> No seriously, how is your current camera/lens holding you back! >> Stop falling for all the marketing hype and just shoot some pictures. >> >> Photography is a hard business to make money in. >> The successful ones I've seen are better salesmen than photographers. >> So just get over it...or wait for Godfrey's >> 'After the World's End Sale Days'. >> >> Regards, Bob S. > > > Yeah, you can get better prices on-line. Wasn't my point. > > What do people look for on-line? > > They look for the brands they know about; the ones they've seen at Walmart, > Costco, Target ... or they buy from Walmart, Costco, Target or once upon a > time Wolf Camera/Ritz Camera (are there any camera chains left?). Sometimes, > they even shop at independent camera stores like the two here in Raleigh. > > They may look at the camera in Walmart & look on-line at Walmart.com for a > better price and then end up buying from Amazon, Adorama & B&H. > > But they don't look at Nikon/Canon/Sony at Walmart and then go looking > on-line for Pentax. > > There's actually a couple of different things going on here from my point of > view. > > 1. People ain't gonna buy Pentax if they don't know Pentax exists. > > And without Pentax being in the stores, for far too many people Pentax does > *NOT* exist. Pentax needs more than just old fogies like us looking on > Amazon for the best deal on last year's discontinued model. At some point > too many of us won't be around any longer and not enough people will know > Pentax exists to keep the brand viable. > > When there's nobody left to buy Pentax cameras, there won't be any new > Pentax cameras. > > 2. I want certain things in a new camera. And I *DO* *WANT* a new camera (I > don't NEED a new camera, but I want one). Pentax doesn't offer anything that > even comes close to what I want. > > But, someone else does. Or at least they offer a camera that gives me a > whole lot of what I want, say 90%. > > The only real drawback is that none of my current lenses will fit it. > Replacing all that glass is going to be painful. But it's doable. > > How much longer does it make sense for me to wait to see if Pentax is ever > going to offer me a camera that comes close enough to what I want that I > should wait however much longer it will actually take to get one into my > hands. > > I'll make a little personal prediction here ... one year from today, either > Pentax will have introduced a Full-frame DSLR that's within close enough > shouting distance to the Nikon D600 or in 2014 I won't be shooting with > Pentax any longer. > > If so, I'll miss Pentax. I can't begin to say how much that's going to hurt. > > I hope I'll be able to console myself with a camera that gives me what I > want. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
