----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mind you, I'm not saying it won't sell, just that it won't make any > serious inroads into the general DSLR market. Us Pentaxians will > support it, but we are small in number and only a small percentage of > us will buy it (reality check). Many are waiting for a lower price, > version 2 (bugs worked out) or full frame sensor. > Bruce, What you say about pricing makes very much sense to me. It's just one thing I keep wondering about. Everyone here seem to assume that Pentax, by introducing a DSLR, will have to steal market shares from the other DSLR brands to gain a foothold. Do they really need to? Imo, the question is where they recruit from, and what their scope is. I don't think Pentax has to sustain a huge percentage market share to make profit. They're so small that even a 2-3% growth in market share is substantial. A small pool of current Pentax SLR users that want to protect their investment in optics, sure. Myself included, most likely. Other brands' film or digital SLRs? -No. I agree with Bruce & P�l's lines of thought. Maybe unless they also have a pool of unused old K-mount lenses and decide to blow the dust off them instead... What about compact camera users? Any chance that people will cross-upgrade from whatever film compact to DSLR? -I suppose most of them will settle for a digital compact, but there's a huge number of digital compacts already out there. I would expect that a reasonably priced DSLR could tempt _them_ into the world of interchangeable lenses. What about new users? Sounds unlikely, I know... Anyway, I think Pentax will be more than happy to establish themselves with a market share in DSLRs comparable to the share they have in film DSLR. Jostein
