On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps more people would buy it WITH compatability. I'd love to see the > sales figures for the *istD, because I don't get the impression it is > a runaway hit outside this list. I don't see what the *istD has to > offer a first-time buyer that the Canon and Nikon DSLRs don't, other > than a K-mount. By the end of this week both Nikon and Canon will have > cheaper options, too.
People who never owned a Pentax camera before on dpreview seem to be buying the *ist D for a couple of reasons: * They like the user interface and look and feel * They like the small size I expect that if you ask most members of this list why they bought a Pentax SLR in the first place that those would be two common answers. The other is probably the quality of lenses. I don't think that the *ist D is selling as well as the Canon 300D, but it also costs more and comes from a less well known (today) brand. > Why should the user buy Pentax unless it either has features that > others don't (which it does, in some ways) or he already has some > Pentax gear that he'd like to use? I tell first-time SLR buyers > to get a Canon because I honestly feel that starting from scratch > it is the best thing to do. I tell people to buy what they are comfortable with. I personally wouldn't a Canon tomorrow if all of my gear was stolen. The cameras and lenses are big and I don't like their UI. I didn't own many of the lenses that I now carry around before buying the *ist D. I knew that this would probably be the case before buying the camera and did consider the other systems. My existing lens collection isn't what kept with me with Pentax, the size and UI of their cameras is what kept me. alex
