I just don't get the inferiority complex stuff. Wonder how Canon and Nikon owners felt ten years ago when they weren't even included in the B&H Professional Photo Source Book. 608 pages of professional photography equipment and Canon was not included anywhere. Nikon only was included for their large format lenses. Pentax had multi-page sections for 645 and 67. The little tiny format of the day--35mm was not considered professional--no matter how many frames per second a Canon could rip out...nor how many big white lenses they could boast at Wimbledon.
Coming from that background, I could care less how much market share those other companies have. Doesn't your Pentax shoot the images you want? If not try another brand, bet theirs won't shoot images any better since, after all, it's the shooter not the equipment that makes great images.
If you want to feel superior, buy into the Leica system and spend the necessary dollars. Then you can shoot the same pictures--manual focus only by the way--but feel better about yourself while doing it.
You should know by now, Pentax will build whatever they want with virtually no input from North American or European photographers and our fragile egos are of absolutely no concern to Pentax. Get over it and go shoot!
Last edited by Ron Boggs; 01-22-2009 at 09:59 AM.
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