On 1/28/03 9:24 AM, "Iren & Henry Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh... I've made a typing mistake. The correct one should read as: > > The prediction for year 2003 production is: 31.45million unit for digital > cameras, 20.17million units for film cameras. Hi Henry, :-)) What you should have included in your post (maybe you already have, I just skimmed through this thread) is the fact that the large increase in the digicam sales is really at the sacrifice of P&S film camera. People who used to buy film P&S are shifting to digicam by a huge mass. I am sure this will be proliferated to more upscale market, i.e., DSLR as soon as their price comes down to certain level. But this indicates to me that Pentax has even more reasons to shift their emphasis toward the digital arena because the film P&S was their bread & butter market. No wonder they are busy coming up with various digicam models now. P&S digicam is bloody competitive while the DSLR market is still the one for the traditional camera makers. I have no doubt that Pentax are going to come up with something attractive, competitive and affordable when they release their version of DSLR, because it is almost a matter of life or death situation for the camera maker. For this reason, I just cannot see why Pentax would wait too long for the release of DSLR, although it is almost given at this time. It would be a matter of time that Minolta also is going to enter into the DSLR market (I read somewhere that they are carefully measuring the timing of entry, just like Pentax have been doing), unless they drop the camera biz altogether which seems unlikely at this stage. Cheers, Ken
