Cameron, Mr. Rubenstein was fairly correct in his assessment of the Pentax situation. Canon is the gadget and marketing king and as such, will release new stuff more often with more innovation than anybody else. Nikon will release just enough to not get blown away by Canon. Minolta and Pentax have already been blown away. The one area that Pentax has any strength in that we might have interest is medium format. Even there, recent developments are looking grim for Pentax unless they start taking some chances. However, they have shown in the past long while that they are not willing to take chances and compete. I would say that if you are not happy with the current offerings, then the time may have come to start looking to one of the others.
I, myself, am satisfied for the time being. Medium Format is occupying my interests and development for now. A digital SLR is not of interest until I can get a full frame sensor because I can't stand to lose that much on the wide end. Based on prices, it will be a long while before I pick up something. Who knows where Pentax will be then? In the meantime, I have no needs or expectations that weren't already being met by the current product line so I am fine. I do understand how many of you may feel. I wish you luck in your search. Sorry that this has been a dead end. Bruce Friday, September 27, 2002, 4:09:21 PM, you wrote: CH> While Canonophile's are still realing from the too many cameras released in CH> too short a time, we are reduced to hunting through obscure patent CH> applications to see pencil drawings of things that will probably never be. CH> This is totally ****ing ridiculous. CH> Cameron Hood CH> on 09/27/02 3:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at CH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:31:38 +0200 >> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l_Jensen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: DSLR... >> Message-ID: <003101c265a4$1aad4480$a0ac4382@oemcomputer> >> Content-Type: text/plain; >> charset="iso-8859-1" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >> >> Rüdiger wrote: >> >>> No Pentax news >>> >>> (no DSLR, no IS converter, no USM lens, no KAF3 mount, no limited lens, no >>> LX-AF, no AF converter...) >> >> >> I for one had at least expected a Limited lens. >> >> Pċl
