On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Andrew Dacey wrote:
> A think a big part of it is a marketing analysis. The camera
> manufacturer figures that the people that want MLU fall into the "pro"
> or "advanced amateur" category. So the camera manufacturer puts out 2
> levels of bodies, the amateur/low-end SLRs, and the "pro" SLRs. There's
> usually a significant feature jump when you go to the "pro" line.
I never did like that sort of reasoning (the marketer's, not Andrew's).
I'd go so far as to say that it cost Olympus the sale of an OM-10 in
1980 - on the grounds that I'd have to buy an accessory to make it do
what the ME Super I actually bought would do for the same money out of
the box.
Surely, what sells cameras to Pros is ruggedness, reliability and
back-up (given an otherwise good array of lenses and system
accessories).
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