Re: Whatever happened to Pentax?

"Pudentame" <no.one@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Tony Polson wrote:
>> "Michael Benveniste" <mhb-offer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> While I think there was a marketing window where the 645D could
>>> have succeeded, too many potential customers have already switched
>>> systems.
>>
>>
>> I wonder how many Hasselblad H Series DSLRs have been sold?  How many
>> Mamiya ZD bodies?  That data might give some indication as to the size
>> of the potential market.
>>
>> I suspect that the market is extremely small, and that a sensor with
>> rather more pixels than 18 million would be needed for Pentax to
>> compete in it.
>>
>
> Compare the cost of the Hasselblad H and Mamiya ZD to the cost of their 
> medium format film bodies.
>
> Supply and demand. Get the price down into the range where the film
bodies 
> were, and demand will pick up.

Don't forget to factor in the cost of consumables over the life of the 
camera.  While film was relatively inexpensive, every roll had to be 
processed.  Even for those that did their own darkroom work, there was
still 
the cost of chemicals, equipment, paper, etc.