Steve Sharpe wrote: > At 6:30 PM -0700 9/2/06, Douglas Newman wrote: > >>--- "George Sinos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Keppler always has an interesting take on the >>> industry. >> >>Indeed, very interesting. >> >>It is worth noting that Herb uses a Pentax *ist D and >>a Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D - not a Canon or Nikon. (He >>is a long-time Pentax and Minolta user.) >> >>It is interesting that he implies that Pentax are not >>really interested so much in "serious" photographers >>as point-and-shooters who will be attracted by >>"colorful graphics on the LCD panel". Not the >>direction I would like to see them moving in... > > > My hypothesis is that Pentax designed their 35mm cameras for the > varying levels of amateur users. For the pros they had their two > medium format lines. How all this translates over to the digital age > remains to be seen. >
Pentax's traditional market for 35mm has long been the new SLR buyer. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
