That's funny, I do not see where anyone in this tread was saying "gotta have new more better faster more now." The point I think we all were trying to make is that Pentax has really not done much to keep our confidence. There are lenses that are being discontinued or out of stock. There are potential buyers like Shel who cannot find the camera he wants.
Note: that since August, Pentax has announced 9 P&S's, count them 9. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Pentax/ (+ three today.) Meanwhile the DSLR lineup has barely shown any sign movement. These actions do not seem consistent with the "DSLR focused" plans that Pentax would like us to believe. On 2/15/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not understand this "gotta have new more better faster more now" > attitude. The rumors and supposedly informed folks have said here and > on every Pentax oriented forum for months that they will have new SLR > products to announce at Photokina 2006, NOT PMA. > > Products announced for PMA have been in the pipeline for 7-10 months > at least. Just because they're going to focus on higher end cameras > like SLRs doesn't mean they're going to dump every new product in the > P&S range. > > I'm not exasperated with Pentax. I'm exasperated with the knee-jerk > reactions by Pentax users, both here and on the other forums. To me, > the fact that they came out with a very successful *ist D, then > followed it with a very solid and useful *ist DS, DL, DS2 models that > are closely related shows that they have good guts in the design, and > are willing to put in the time and money for a carefully considered > development program. > > There is NOTHING wrong with the D or the DS/DL/DS2 bodies. They may > not be the top-end market leaders on features or speed, and they may > not be at the state of the art on resolution anymore, but they are > solid, reliable, consistent, high quality cameras which are > absolutely useful and produce excellent photographs. > > Pentax' conservative design and development is very appealing to me, > and is not so very different from Nikon's. Nikon's upgrade for their > D100 body, the D200, took just about as long as the time between > Pentax D introduction and the upcoming D2 rumored to be announced in > the fall. The D100, like the *ist D, was slow, a little feature- > sparse, but produced excellent pictures. And the D200 is a superb, > state of the art body. I see no reason why the D2, with a similar > time in development, will be any less. > > Godfrey > > > -- <----------------------------------------------------> Perry Pellechia Primary email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry <---------------------------------------------------->
