Kodak started out badly and never recovered, they released their full
frame DSLR before it was ready, and had
to back track re-design and then re-deploy. Even though they tried to
make the problems with their original DSLR
right with free upgrades and repairs, Kodak was never able to overcome
the original bad buzz. Pentax and Minolta
are in a different position.
Boris Liberman wrote:
Hi!
Sylwek, I think the main issue here is like this. Imagine for a
moment, just for sake of this discussion, that Pentax or Minolta are
considering investing into development of FF DSLR, but still on the
marketing level. Now they read the news. What would they say - "these
guys at Kodak are not stupid, and they've just cancelled the FF DSLR
they had"... Perhaps the technology is not still there, not from the
cost effectiveness point of view. So they decide to not even think of
pursuing a FF DSLR...
Is it good? Is it bad? I've no clue. But I think it is a plausible scenario.
That by the way would be my response to Kostas' question as well...
Who knows, perhaps development of FF DSLR is *the* next breakthrough
which now will be postponed, perhaps indefinitely... Or may be not...
--
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
--Groucho Marx
