Mark wrote:
> Been saving this one in my "keepers" file for some time now: > > > Thinking that Pentax will start selling an up to date DSLR, when > > they've sold nothing more than simple P&S digital cameras, is pure > > fantasy. So have I. How about these: "It isn't that Pentax will use some new lens mount on an interchangeable DSLR, they aren't going to release an interchangeable lens DSLR. There are not enough people out there who would buy it to pay for its cost. Pentax has never been willing to buy market share. They are too small a company to be able to come out with a new digital body every year (their sales are 1/10 of Canon's). Pentax may have been able to get some market share if they could have made a production camera out of the prototype that they showed, but they didn't. They missed their window of opportunity and have passed on making this type of product. By the time that Pentax would ever start selling an IL-DSLR, anyone who wanted digital will have been long gone. Right now, interchangeable lens DSLRs (IL-DSLR) come in two flavors: Nikon or Canon mount; we'll see if Sigma can make a go of it. I suspect that they will only wind up with a slightly bigger segment of the market than they have with their film SLRs." "I have no idea why anyone seriously thought, as opposed to wished, that Pentax would sell a DSLR. People who have a need for digital have, and will, find other solutions. I don't expect any major, or long term, effect on the Pentax used equipment market."
