On Mar, 10 feb 1998 8:29, George Anderson <mailto:gma@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I looked at the 2000 for the first time last week. Keeble & Shuchart here
in Palo Alto carries it. It had
>the small zoom on
>it. One positive impression it made on me was it is extremely
lightweight. Great for backpacking. I
>didn't really check it
>out carefully in other terms. The salesman, though, did the same thing
that another salesman in this
>store did when I went in
>to look at the IS-3. They both showed me the Olympus, then after about 10
seconds, they grabbed a
>Pentax ZX-whatever and tried
>to sell it to me. "Better camera for the money," he says, "the Pentax also
includes a case and, check out
>this Phoenix zoom
>lens!" I said "But it won't take my Zuiko lenses." "Oh." he says.
"You're stuck with the Olympus then."
>Well, that's one
>way to look at it. But why did both salesmen do the same thing? Anyone
else had similar experiences?
>
they get a better value for *your* money... Pentax is trying to eat some
market share from the majors... and give sellers good reasons to do so.
Pentax has a very favourable size/features ratio and this is a good weapon
in market war. They are pushing sales now they have a good "plus".
Marco
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