Are there any shops here taking pre-order of K10D? Finally, after waiting for almost 3 years, I have decided that this is the chosen one.
you should consider Samsung's gx-10. It's the same camera with different brand. I wonder which one (k10 or GX10) is cheaper.
Further more, Both camera may be similar but I do not think they are identical. Yes, I know my explanation is a little bit weird.
The thing is, already existing Pentax users will hardly go for samsung. Only new users of D SLR may consider samsung. Plus, samsung may ask higher price for the same model.
So, for people do not know much Pentax, Samsung is also an alternative to N, C.
Further, for Koreans and some Chinese, definitely samsung is an alternative to Japanese brands. Given quite some Koreans and Chinese do not like Japanese brands.
Looks like not many ppl frequent pentax forum. Doesnt appeal to Spore crowd.
cos most of them has been influenced by the majority of C and N owners who kept on saying wide range of lenses, "superior" performance, used by "everyone".
Its the same for Palm and Pocket PC some years back. In those days, everyone was saying how great the Palm is and how lame the Pocket PC is, no software, unstable, difficult to use, etc. The general population who were largely ignorant believed the larger group of Palm users. Today, the situation has reversed and its all due to Microsoft slowly improving on their product and leveraging on their financial muscle too.
I think what Pentax Singapore needs to do is to improve on their education and exposure.
Just look at the newspapers and magazines. Almost all tech magazines have some sort of advert for N , C and O. And many took pains to explain why they are "great".
As for Pentax, hardly an advert and when you see one, its usually a small one with features in bullets and no elaboration!
Just look at how Panasonic is marketing their MegaOIS. Full details, explanations, interesting snippets and sample images. I truly believed they had a great product there!
Of course nowadays there are alot of copycats out there, ironically from C , N and even Pentax.
But no matter how small the Pentax market are, more importantly is how we use the camera to produce pictures that even some N/C users will "WOW"... right..
People around me are questioning my first dSLR when i told them it will be Pentax. A couple of them urged me to think of lense before the body. It sounds quite true. How do you guys see the point?