On 9/3/05, Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few days ago I stopped by the local shopping mall (I hate shopping > malls) because I needed to get a Needle Point Precision Lubricator at > Radio Shack. I wandered into the Ritz Camera store just to see what > they stock these days. <snip>
Well, it's not just "mall stores", as one poster suggested. Vic near Toronto went into Henry's (Canada's largest photo retailer) flagship store in downtown Toronto shortly after the D was introduced, and he didn't mention any other camera; he went in and asked to look at the *istD, and was made clear to him that he didn't want that camera, that the offerings from other manufacturers would better suit his needs (even though the salesperson didn't know him, his photographic background, or what system he currently owned). Your story seems not to be isolated, although here in Toronto at least, Pentax Canada seems to be doing a fine job of trying to rectify that with promotions and advertising on billboards all over town, on the sides of buses and in various publications. Until recently those billboards were advertising digi-P&S's, Pentax generally, or the whole line-up from P&S to DSLR. However, the other day, I saw a billboard advertising only the *istDS, which I was quite happy to see. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
