Originally posted by Jodokast96 PENTAX
Unfortunately, the majority of us won't qualify.
This is GREAT NEWS - read on.
In 2003 Canon won a digital equipment supply contract for my daughter's (nationally competitive) High School Journalism Department when it converted from K1000's to digital. She was Yearbook Editor-in-Chief and had a hand in the RFP and final selection. Pentax wasn't really considered after the written proposal phase since (IIRC) the
*ist was promised but not released yet - and the exercise was conducted fairly, as a teaching/learning experience.
A 10 year supply agreement/commitment was made to Canon. It was expected that the consumables savings alone would fund complete equipment renewal every third year for a decade.
So
half a generation of the best High School journalism students in the US grew up on Canon, after 20+ years of "holding a Pentax." 40 photography students a year - 400 future professionals. They will ALWAYS favor Canon - and many of them
will enter the profession.
Hoya/Pentax is taking the long view and fighting Canikon in 2018 with these battles today - this is GREAT news.
FWIW, my daughter entered a highly selective media honors program in college and now works for a national broadcast news network at its Washington, DC bureau. She's a manager/producer, not a "shooter," but I'd bet she will administer RFP's some time in her career.
She also returned to me my gift of my old KX and K lenses you see in my signature - and bought a Canon.
But she did encourage me to take up this avocation seriously - and helped me select the K10D