Rather than being criticized, I think the brotherhood should be complimented for having shown incredible patience.
Jack --- 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 > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
