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So it's the K100D that's just a loss leader then?

No its because Jessops staff are like the Borg they do exactly the same as each other and are drilled to sell canon and nikon

Now they have excess stock of this model because they have probably talked newbies into buying C or N cameras

Serves them right I hope they lose buisness

Pete

The Jessops group is in financial difficulties...

probably something to do with the number of towns in which there are multiple Jessops stores within a few hundred yards of one another. I really can't see how having two stores in the centre of Cambridge can be helpful and the rent must be a fortune.

Comment by Mongoose posted on K100D + 18-55mm from Jessops at 17/05/2007 - 17:44

thats mental!

Comment by Mongoose posted on K100D + 18-55mm from Jessops at 17/05/2007 - 14:08

and this is why I don't buy photography magazines, I'd have to spend my whole life writing letters of complaint!

well done for fighting the Pentax corner gentlemen, let us know if you get any response.

Comment by Mongoose posted on My Message to a Well know DSLR Magazine at 17/05/2007 - 20:12

but if that is the case then Hoya will now withdraw their offer, or make a counter proposal.

Damnit why must we live in interesting times?

Comment by Mongoose posted on Pentax Accept Hoya Offer at 16/05/2007 - 18:03

dontcha just love babelfish translations?

Comment by Mongoose posted on Pentax Accept Hoya Offer at 16/05/2007 - 17:44

does it show my age that when you said "line up the red dots" I was thinking of a 28mm lens on a K1000 where if you lined up all the reds you got hyperfocal distance at F8 and 1/125th, ie when in doubt set this and press the button.

What's worrying is that the age it probably shows is rather older than I am, my K1000 is a good 6 years my senior!

Comment by Mongoose posted on K10D vs Sony Alpha at 19/05/2007 - 01:10

wait, his Fiancee applied influence in FAVOUR of a camera purchase?

does she have a sister?

Comment by Mongoose posted on K10D vs Sony Alpha at 19/05/2007 - 00:20

and about time too

Comment by Mongoose posted on K10D vs Sony Alpha at 17/05/2007 - 13:15

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Sony survive off the name alone, people don't care what it is because it has Sony stamped on it. Their notebooks are 2x the price of most of their equivalents. PS3 is a jumble that will sell because of the name. Their TVs BlueRay... all the name that keeps it going thanks to ignorant people. Plus keeps the prices inflated.

yes but I am unconvinced that will work in the photographic world. Suddenly they are in a situation where Joe Public who knows nothing but wants "the best DSLR" will buy a Canon, not a Sony (sorry for the sacrilege, but it's true) . They need to grasp that in terms of cameras they don't really have a brand to stand on.

Comment by Mongoose posted on K10D vs Sony Alpha at 16/05/2007 - 13:22

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Optically, the resolution is not even as good as with Pentax's 'kit' lenses. Then again, not may standard or cheapish lenses are...

that's interesting because they are also ****** expensive. Sony seem to have a very high opinion of their own brand name, an opinion which I don't think is justifiable in the DSLR realm.

The old camera brands can expect automatic respect on the DSLR playing field, everyone else has to earn it. Samsung seem to have grasped this, Sony do not.

Comment by Mongoose posted on K10D vs Sony Alpha at 16/05/2007 - 13:00

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