Hmm... not so bad idea, but according to my secret source Pentax is going even further. Very soon they will start selling just promises of outstanding products to come.
You pay a yearly fee and get nothing. They earn money and spend nothing in annoying stuff such as R&D, manufacturing, quality control, and so on. No worries of possible uncompatibilities, No obsolescence, No faults, No service, No problems at all. Always top equipment available in your dreams. As long as it will last... Cheers, Dario Bonazza ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caveman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:37 AM Subject: Re: Pentax announced development of digital medium format > Anthony Farr wrote: > > Caveman, > > > > Shhhh! Don't go putting dangerous ideas like that into their heads. > > I have even better ones ;-) You could do it like with calling cards / > mobile phones. You buy the card, scratch it and get the code, enter it > et voila, instead of 30 minutes of talk, you get 24 exposures. Or you > may buy professional cards for 36 exposures, or XL packages of 240 and > XXL of 360. > > Naah, it's too obvious. We can hide it. After a number of exposures, the > camera blips and displays E734. You look in the manual and find out it > means "Error 734 - service needed". Next time it's "E345 - shutter > calibration required". etc. The guys don't actually have to service > anything, they just take your money, reset a cmos counter and here you > go for another round of shots. > > cheers, > caveman >
