P. J. Alling wrote: >Economic data based on this sort of thing is done by surveys
No it isn't. It's done by *sales figures*. (A self-selecting survey of the type being done here is completely valueless.) The factory is now working 3 shifts to turn out enough K100D cameras to meet demand. And there's probably going to be a waiting list fo the K10D for quite a while. They speculated several years ago that they could eliminate the aperture simulator and still sell cameras in good numbers. They have now deduced - from the success of their current and recent DSLR's - that the number of additional sales to be gained from bringing back the aperture simulator would be insignificant. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

