"Sas Gabor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The homepage of the Hungarian Pentax importer (www.slach.hu) states >that MZ60 and *ist are the only 35mm Pentax SLR bodies in production, >the other models still in stock will run out this year. > >Are they right?
Maybe. Official Pentax representatives certainly won't say. One knowledgeable person I know in the business says he personally believes that *no* Japanese camera makers are currently building *any* 35mm SLR film cameras any more: They're all selling from stock in warehouses. He doesn't have any official statements or firsthand evidence to go by, but he says that it's the only scenario that makes any sense at all given what he's seeing in terms of sales volume. The dealers he has contact with reported that 82% of the enquiries they received in the first part of 2003 were for digital. In the last two months of the year that figure went up to 95%! Just try to find a 35mm film SLR in any store other than a camera specialist in the U.S. Then see how many film SLR's you find even at a camera shop. Very few. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
