Bruce wrote: > It is, however, very similar to the situation a few years ago when > Minolta came out with their flagship (Maxxum/Dynax 9). It sold well for > a short time due to the pent up demand from Minolta owners, and then > sales slowed to a trickle.
I do believe, however, that the Minolta user base is more like Canon's as Minolta since their mount change in '85 has maitained a high-tech approach appealing to the feature counters. I do feel that Pentax is in a somewhat different boat, more like Nikon perhaps in some respects, in as much at they may sell a niche camera to a certain market segment of many years. P�l

