Now I've seen a few threads here and there but at Frys on Friday and I wanted to look at the Kx and K7 as they didn't have a Kr or K5 in stock. The batteries were dead as they were the last time I was in. Some guy walked up behind me and said "Frys never charges their batteries but you don't want Pentax anyway" When I asked why he said "They're going out of business". I said oh really, why do you say that and he just went on to say that their sales were off and nobody was interested in them anyway. I let him know that they just released new bodies and a new, popular lens. He proceeded to show me his favorites which included a few Sony models, Olympus and a Lumix.
Sometimes when you're standing shoulder to shoulder with somebody it's hard to get a good look at them but he finally made me feel uncomfortable so I excused myself. As I walked away I noticed a lanyard flipped around backwards with a Sony badge attached and a Sony jacket in his cart.
So that left me wondering if he was just trying to promote some of his products or if there's any truth to what he was saying. I understand that a good camera is a good camera but if they did go out of production today, I might have a hard time buying tomorrow. Why? Well, I don't want to stock up on lenses and a body and never really be able to upgrade.
That happened to me during the HD DVD / Blu Ray wars too. I bought into HD DVD as at the time they had more titles that interested me.... A few months and a few thousand dollars later they stopped production. Movies could and still can be hand for pennies on the dollar and my old player, well, it's my garage CD player now