Rob Studdert wrote:
My view simply is that if they don't pull their socks up and start
competing with their direct competition (that means comparable lens line-ups,
sensor sizes and higher resolutions) then people will dump the marque like rats
leaving a sinking ship.
As was mentioned by another lister yesterday, Canon know what they are doing,
they are watching Pentax and their cameras are becoming smaller, once they are
a reasonable size and if Pentax isn't showing any signs of future development
and support for 35mm DSLR users I'm sure people will wave their last goodbye. I
know I will. I've held off jumping ship even though I've been tempted, I'm
relatively pleased with what I've got now but it's pretty clumsy relative to
the competition (excluding small size advantage for the moment).
Same here. IMO, the only people buying a Pentax DSLR are those that are loyalists (likely because of legacy lenses) or people that don't know any better. I know if I were buying a camera system from scratch, a first time SLR/DSLR purchaser, it wouldn't be Minolta, Olympus, or Pentax.
I can't even recommend an *ist D or DS in good conscience, even though I think it's a great camera. With so much out there from Nikon and Canon both in bodies and lenses, and with what appears to be a commitment from them to future R&D and product development... I'd feel foolish giving advice to buy a Pentax. When a person did their own research and learned of the market place, I wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Even though I like the size of the *ist D, that attribute is very low on my list of priorities when it comes to choosing a camera. I could easily jump ship, should Pentax continue to be lackadaisical.
Tom C.
