RE: Aussie *ist D Prices

2004-08-30 Thread Jens Bladt
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Kostas Kavoussanakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 25. august 2004 15:36 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: RE: Aussie *ist D Prices On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Trevor Bailey wrote: If I wanted to lay

Re: Aussie *ist D Prices

2004-08-25 Thread Chris Stoddart
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Trevor Bailey wrote: I did some pricing today with my local Photographic outlet. A Canon 300D is about $1700 AU with a Canon EF 24-85 zoom. A *ist D is about $2500 AU with a poxy Sigma 28-70 f2.8. I can see why the punters are flocking to the 300D. It only takes a

RE: Aussie *ist D Prices

2004-08-25 Thread Trevor Bailey
Chris Stoddart replied... Well the 'poxy Sigma lens' performance is probably no worse than the 'poxy Canon lens' at that price point. Also the *ist D competes with the Canon 10D not the 300D, so you need to price it against that. IF (- big if) we get a Baby *istD at Photokina then that should

RE: Aussie *ist D Prices

2004-08-25 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Trevor Bailey wrote: If I wanted to lay down the cash, I want a Pentax, But price is telling me 300D Canon. As to the 10D, have never seen one in the flesh. Trevor, Price once told you to buy the MZ-60; was that a good decision? How much money did you lose on it so as to

RE: Aussie *ist D Prices

2004-08-25 Thread Chris Stoddart
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: My feeling is that the 300D is a money-pinching instrument on behalf of Canon, a brutally downsized fill in the right Canon model. I hope that Graywolf was right in his comments the other day that the Baby-D will not be the same thing, though

RE: Aussie *ist D Prices

2004-08-25 Thread Paul McEvoy
at the moment. Original Message Follows From: Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Aussie *ist D Prices Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:35:57 +0100 (BST) On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Trevor Bailey wrote: If I wanted to lay down the cash, I