> > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/07/03 Mon PM 03:24:36 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Coming Soon - A new K-mount Film Camera > > On Jul 3, 2006, at 7:27 AM, mike wilson wrote: > > > If the product I desire is not there, I cannot buy it. Which is > > what I'm doing. 8-) But if the industry doesn't know I'm doing > > that, it will never develop the product I desire. I don't believe > > politicians when they tell me that they are doing what I asked them > > to, despite the evidence of my senses - I won't believe the > > photographic industry either. > > How did the industry learn to produce the options they have in the > past? Because people wanted to buy them and let THEM know (not forums > like this one), to a small degree, but mostly because either they had > an idea, built it, and fished it out into the marketplace, saw money > get returned, or because their product marketing department > investigated the market for an idea and found there was adequate > interest to be worth a development project.
Or find a selling point (convenience seems to be the big one) that allows you to present the development as something so innovative as to be essential. Put as much money as you can afford into advertising. Financial backers would laugh you out of the boardroom if you showed up with an idea that was not promotable in this way. Pardon me, my scepticism is showing..... > > Very very few companies base product decisions on unfocused input > from people ranting like I see on this forum. If you want to > influence a company's product development folks: > > - write a brief with some supporting data allowing > analysis of market opportunity, cost and risk. > - establish a relationship with influential folks in the product > development groups, win them to your side. > - expect that 98% of all such proposals will never make it > past the first person's litter basket without extreme perseverance > and patience on the part of the proposer. Or, by the wonder of the internet, keep prodding on forums that you know the manufacturer or its agents frequents. Probably the same chance of success but far easier. > > >> - Slide vs print is irrelevant ... that's a matter of presentation > >> vehicle. > > Except one is not yet available in similar quality. > > What "one" is not yet available in "similar quality"? > > Prints? That's bullshit. > > I have a large number of traditional darkroom aficionados visiting my > work on exhibit right now. I have to inform them that not a single > sliver of silver-halide emulsion was harmed in the making of my show > pieces. What I'm hanging are 8x10 to 11x17 inch B&Ws in this show > printed right here on my desk with an Epson R2400. You need larger > sizes? No problem ... I had two prints made for a client last week, > 21x29 inch image dimension, printed on Epson R9800 machines at > Calypso Imaging. The quality is breathtaking. > > Projection? > > For home use, a 20-23" display screen is available sub-$800 nowadays > and easily surpasses a Kodak Carousel projector with standard lens > and the typical home projection screen for presentation quality. > > Maybe not at the $500 home consumer price point, but there are > projectors of surpassing quality available right now. I set one up at > my contract client's office for presentations and video conferencing, > can't remember the brand off hand but it was about $3500 or so, > connects wirelessly to any computer system that you want to use as > the projection host. It produces a fantastic, color managed, very > high resolution projection image on par with the quality of a top > line 20 inch desktop monitor. I think that's where you and I differ substantially. I don't consider a desktop monitor to be high resolution. I've looked at systems costing nearly £5000 and they are nowhere near as good as a well set up analogue system. > > The options are out there. You have to be willing to pay for them if > you want them. Just like it's always been. > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
