No way, I bet they are still a small fraction of total camera Sales. The mainstream is still very heavily digital p&s. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 9:48 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The JCO survey You do realize that we are currently in the biggest boom of SLR sales since the late 70's, right? SLR's are back. -Adam J. C. O'Connell wrote: > You cannot prove this and I cannot prove otherwise > But I would bet the demographics of SLR users is > Much older than P&S shooters because P&S has been > Mainstream for the past 20 Years while SLRS faded > Out at that time. > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Adam Maas > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:58 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: The JCO survey > > ROFLMFAO. > > The college photography market is buying cheap DSLR's like candy. The > old fogey's are buying Hassy's because they can now afford one. > > I shoot regularly with the local flickr members. They're overwhelmingly > young Canon shooters, with a helping of Nikon and Pentax shooters (And > one lone Minolta guy) and damn near all digital. Most of the few film > shooters started with digital and tried film after seeing one of the > older types still shooting it. There is a smattering of older shooters > in the group, but at 29 I'm older than 75% of that crowd. > > -Adam > > > J. C. O'Connell wrote: >> The kiddie (college) market is Digital P&S because they >> Grew up on P&S. It's the old fogies who shoot >> SLR because only they even know a SLR is in the >> First place. >> jco >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of >> mike wilson >> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:51 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: The JCO survey >> >> Mark Roberts wrote: >> >>> William Robb wrote: >>> >>>> Where is the economic advantage to them to put a feature on a camera >> of >>>> little benefit to a very small % of the user base? >>>> One user being willing to buy a feature doesn't make a very rational > >>>> argument for inclding something, does it? >>>> There is a much larger % of users who wouldn't use it, don't want to > >>> pay >>> >>>> for it, and may look elsewhere for a camera (read different brand) >>> And in fact these are the people who represent the most desirable >>> demographic for Pentax: The college-age crowd just getting into >>> photography - who may become life-long Pentax users if that's the >>> system they can be persuaded to buy into today. Despite the elitism > we >>> older, more experienced photographers feel, we aren't a very >> profitable >>> long-term investment to pursue. >> With the greatest respect 8-) that's cobblers. Middle-aged and older >> people are where the money is at. No kids (if they've got any >> sense....), house paid for, at the peak of their earning potential. >> They are the ones with money to throw at expensive hobbies and > pastimes. >>> The people who Pentax most needs to attract weren't even *born* in >> 1982 >>> when the "A" series lenses were introduced! (Isn't that a scary >> thought >>> for a lot of us!) >>> >>> >> > > -- 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
