In a message dated 3/14/2002 9:15:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If Sigma can justify a nice one in, of all
mounts, their own SIgma mount.for heavens sake, it's inexcusible
How 'bout we call Sigma and ask for a K-mount..its not that big a stretch
now that
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Mark Cassino wrote:
According to the IDC report published for 2001, overall US market share
leaders for the year were Sony at 23%, Olympus at 16% and Hewlett-Packard
at 15%. Kodak came in at #4 after its strong sale in Q4 2001.
What is the IDC report and where is it
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Cyril MARION wrote:
this is exactly what the e-film offers : to allow a replaceable CCD sensor
into a standard SLR.
*sigh*e-film/imagek/silicon film again. We ought to put this is the
'welcome to PDML' email: It doesn't exist! It's vapourware!
dave
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...and BTW I expect people to buy non-Nikon and Canon digital slr to same
extent as they buy film based slr's. Besides, I believe digital may reach a
new market less concerned about whether or not the product have a certain
name.
Seems to be that way so far, just like PCs.
regards,
Alan Chan
Bruce wrote:
I have
no idea just who is going to be buying that Sigma.
It may be that many digital buyers may choose camera more on chip
specification than name; like computers. As for lenses, most people own a
couple of cheap zoom lenses and quite frankly, in this area Sigma is pretty
Pål Audun Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bruce wrote:
I have no idea just who is going to be buying that Sigma.
It may be that many digital buyers may choose camera more on chip
specification than name; like computers. As for lenses, most people own a
couple of cheap zoom lenses and quite
Yep, Sigma seem to be pushing the boundaries of becoming a good OEM. If
they get a camera with a distinct advantage (eg. FOVEON) which sells
well, they will be up there with the rest of them. The only real
disadvantage to Sigma these days is lack of SMC (like all other than
Pentax),
From: Pål Audun Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
According to the rumors Pentax will release their digital slr
in exactly
one week the 22. of Mars. It will cost 1200USD which probably
translate into a mail order price below $1000.
We will see in one week whether this rumor is true or
notes on what users are saying the like AND what they don't like in the recent
releases from Nikon, Canon, Sigma etc.
Dave
From: Aaron Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:50:57 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Call Pentax Demand A Digital SLR/K-Mount
On Thursday
Rob wrote:
I hope you are right.
It's not me who is right or not. Its the source of the rumor. I have no
idea if the claimed 3mp slr built on the MZ-D is real. The rumor further
says that the camera will have 2,5fps rate, 8 continuous frames and APS
sized CCD. Both in black and chrome
On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 09:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Exactly..
Take a look at Contax's (still waiting release) Digital..
Estimated street price is HUGE ($7,000 US)
Didn't that thing finally street? Has anyone seen a review?
-Aaron
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Nope..
As of Tuesday March 12... it's delayed for another 13 days... and that's in JAPAN...
so you can just imagine how long that thing is going to take to get over to North
America and Europe.
Dave
On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 09:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Exactly..
Take a look
I'd like a digital K-mount camera, too, but can't any of the manufacturers find a way
to make a modular, updateable, body? (Now that I think of it, there's the Mamiya
645AFd.) If the CCD could be replaced with the latest version, the camera could stay
current for more than a year or two.
At 06:50 AM 3/15/02 -0500, Mark wrote:
Sigma's EX series lenses appear to be very good indeed and I do respect
the fact
that Sigma appears to be the only third party lens maker dovoting a lot of
effort to good primes as well as zooms. But even so, if you buy the Sigma
camera, you're stuck with
Just because it's electronic it doesn't mean it's like a desktop PC: lots of
room and well defined subsystem/component interfaces. Physically, it's like the
difference in changing a socketed CPU in a desktop motherboard and a surface
mount CPU in a laptop. Even if you could physically get CCDs
It always comes to (s)he who waits.
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Cotty
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Pat White wrote :
There may be technical reasons that make it difficult to
replace a, say, 3-megapixel CCD with next year's 7-meg unit,
but it would make DSLRs more attractive. You can take a
60-year-old film camera and use 2002 film in it, which I find
pretty cool. I'd like a DSLR that
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Cyril MARION wrote:
To know more about e-film I enclose the link (those who already know if
forgive me):
http://www.siliconfilm.com/
Except the company never provided a working example, and folded awhile
ago.
It was a cute idea, though. I'd have bought one.
--
://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto
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From: Brendan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:05 PM
Subject: RE: Call Pentax Demand A Digital SLR/K-Mount
E film doesn't have
Subject: RE: Call Pentax Demand A Digital
SLR/K-Mount
E film doesn't have the resolution, storage
capacity
nor the price to compete. Now if they redid their
offering with a 3-4 mp chip and more memory then
it
would be viable, but then no one would buy a new 4
mp
dslr so the big
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Mark Cassino wrote:
If Sigma plays their cards right through the digital revolution, we may be
looking at a future where they are in the #3 spot behind Canon and Nikon.
Now, are you referring to the over digital camera market in general, or
are you just limiting yourself
Except that you lose the number 1 feature of all digital cameras - the
preview screen!
Without that you cannot edit delete unwanted pictures and you run out
of precious storage space in no time, or be even more thrifty than large
format photographers to conserve space!
This is assuming they
I don't know if this would help, but calling the Corporate Pentax offices and
demanding a decent k-mount digital slr needs to be done by as many of us
Pentax lovers as possible. If Sigma can justify a nice one in, of all
mounts, their own SIgma mount.for heavens sake, it's inexcusible
Bruce wrote:
With DSLRs just now dropping below $2000, the question is how many people are
going to pay that for a Pentax? Minolta isn't trying to do it right now. I
have
no idea just who is going to be buying that Sigma. It costs too much to come
out with a product that's obsolete after 2
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