I would expect them to start implementing anti-shake/image-stabilization in most if not all new model bodies, sell off the existing IS lens stock, replacing it with lenses using the same optical formula, without the IS.
I suspect they will gain more in sales of bodies and systems across the board than they would lose on the relatively fewer sales of high-margin IS lenses. If they don't take this route they will be making a major marketing faux-pas which will benefit all other DLSR mfrs. with in-body anti-shake. Tom C. "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered." From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: any views on K100D vs. Canon Rebel XT (350D)? Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:36:07 +0100 Of course it will, which is why they have a bit of a dilemma. It will be most interesting to see whether they decide to sacrifice sales of low-end cameras, or high-end IS lenses. John On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:20:21 +0100, Aaron Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Tom C wrote: > >> I would expect Canon to implement in-body anti-shake at the soonest >> possible >> time. No information to that, just common sense. > > Won't that destroy the market for their pricey lenses with anti-shake > in them? > > -Aaron > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
