I was just poking around in the 'cameras used' section of Flickr to see how the K20 was doing. I guess I wasn't
too surprised at the numbers with the whole market share thing, though even among all Pentax cameras is was 6th in daily useage by a substantial margin (K10 was #1).
Anyways, here are my cliff notes (daily useage from July 6th 2008)
Users who uploaded 1 or more images yesterday using:
-K20D 59
-K10D 516
(-istDL 103)
Are Pentax users slow to change, or maybe didn't see enough of a reason to change out a good K10 for the K20? So I thought, I'll see what the D300 is up too (kind of expected hundreds)
-D300 29 (twenty nine, thats correct)
What the heck? Wheres all the Nikon users?
-D3 222 (7 times the useage of the D300, huh...)
-D80 3288 (#1 useage, Nikon)
Oh... and Canon?
-Rebel XTi 6590 (#1 used camera of all yesterday)
-EOS 40D 2264
Scary, but something interesting:
-EOS 5D 1461
-EOS 1D MkIII 191
A reasonable showing for FF, given the limited and expensive options (and the D3 is competing well).
Doesn't seem like maybe the K20 made the splash predicted (so far), but then - the newest high end APS-Cs in all stables are all lagging a bit by comparison to more affordable models. Then however, there is a big jump again at the 5D... Is it too soon to predict the possibility that the market at this altitude is waiting for...
something? (hehe, wishful thinking perhaps?) It'll be interesting to see how the D700 does.
But then again, reading daily stats is like looking at faces in clouds right?
Source
Flickr: Camera Finder