Welcome back Mike. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 11:56 AM Subject: Pentax Moribund? Methinks not
> >> This just > >> confirms my impression that Pentax is a moribund brand. > > > Hardly. With the first DSLR coming out next Spring, the baby Optio digicams > selling like hotcakes for Christmas, the first flagship body in years still > new (well, newish) on the market, whole medium format lines including an AF > 645, and...yes, riches galore, endless riches, on eBay, from Pentax > history.... > > I don't know, but I suspect that most of the people on this list, like me, > could survive for the rest of our photographic lives quite nicely if EVERY > OTHER photographic brand name BUT Pentax dried up and blew away tomorrow.... > > Pentax uber alles, > > --Mike > > > Mike Johnston > ________ > > See my weekly online column about photography at either of these two > locations: > > http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sunday1.shtml > > http://www.steves-digicams.com/smp/smp_index.html > > Also, check out my new monthly column in the English _Black & White > Photography_ magazine! >