On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:55:49 +0100, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:47:48PM +0100, mike wilson wrote: >> John Forbes wrote: >> >> > I don't think economics is your strong suit. :-) The considerably >> higher >> > price you quote will drastically reduce demand, which will impinge on >> > economies of scale, and mean that the price you quote won't be >> > profitable. So it'll have to be higher, which will reduce demand >> more. >> >> Or you look at it the other way. It's a killer camera for ?1500. Make >> millions of them. > > That only works if there's a market out there for millions of DSLRs > with a $1500 price tag. I doubt that. And, specifically, I very > much doubt Pentax could sell enough $1500 DSLRs to get the price > down to $1500. Precisely. We're all expecting $500 cameras now. John -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
