Tom wrote: > 1. The local Pentax Rep says he is writing tons of orders for the *istD. So > the dealers seem to think they will sell well.
Good news. Pentax reps around here is a bit pessimistic. Anyway, they can't deliver enough bodies initially. Only 6000 will arrive in Europe (I forgot to ask what time-frame we are talking about; is it the first shipment? This year?. ...) > 2. Apparently cameras are no longer warehoused, but go directly from the > assembly line to a distribution point and are shipped to dealers. This means > that as long as sales are high there is going to be very little stock just > sitting around waiting for someone to buy. This is pretty much how camera are made these day. Probably lenses too. Subcontractors delivers the parts as close as possible to assembly. Assembly happens after the products is essentially sold. > 3. All of us who have actually seen and handled the camera say it is going > to sell like hot cakes at the list price. Those who have no idea what the > camera is like keep saying it won't sell because it is too little, too late, > and too expensive. I leave it to list reader's to decide which to believe. Thre are plenty of products that deserved to suceed in the market place but for some reasons hasn't. I think the *istD will sell. Time will tell how much. > 4. No, the *istD is not a D100 clone, it is a generation ahead of the D100. > For some strange reason some folks seem to think that since it uses the same > sensor, it has to be the same camera. That is not so. It is not the same camera and I have reasons to believe that the sensor is not identical (although it is apparently the "same"). The reason for this suspicions is that one reason for the delay of the *istD was that Sony had not get the chip to within specifications yet. I find that hard to believe if it indeed is TOTALLY identical to whats been used in the D100 for awhile. I admit that I have no more than this fact to base this on.... P�l
