How many times are we going to rehash this. If one Has to buy all new lenses it defeats the purpose of Staying with pentax. Canon has a much better lens Market, new and used. I cant understand how you Can defend pentax on this, replace many many perfectly good High quality Pentax lenses because of a crippled Body mount missing a $25 part? Just plain Dumb jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Forbes Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:37 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The JCO survey Without the aperture simulator, they might lose half a dozen body sales. With it, they might lose thousands of lens sales. It's a no brainer, except, it seems, for the truly brainless. John On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:14:00 +0100, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Couple hundred dollars for cam sensor? that's absurd > if anti shake is only $100 retail. $25.00-35.00 retail > is probably a more accurate figure. Cheap! That is one > of the reasons I am so pissed off about it, a key feature > is missing for virtually NO savings in the final cost > of the body. That's dumb. > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > William Robb > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:08 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: The JCO survey > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "P. J. Alling" > Subject: Re: The JCO survey > > >> >>> >> They don't know how many more sales they'll get with an aperture >> simulator included, part of the reason they're getting these >> pre-orders >> it the touted backward compatibility. If were better wouldn't it be >> logical to expect better sales to old farts like us? I'm certain that >> they'd have one more if it had one. In fact I think there'd be a lot >> more. There may even be pre-orders by old users who don't know the >> limitations caused by lack of an aperture simulator, it's so seldom >> mentioned in the reviews. Those people will be disappointed and won't >> help create positive buzz about the next camera release. We get a >> number of questions on this list about that regularly. How many of >> them >> decided to stay with Pentax or move on. We don't know, and neither >> does Pentax. >> >>> The success of these, and earlier Pentax DSLR's, indicates that the >>> lack of the aperture simulator isn't costing them sufficient sales to >>> be concerned about. >>> >>> >> Which may not last. They still need all the sales they can get, and >> every useful feature helps. > > They need every sale thay can get, and the market is very price > sensitive. > Add a couple of hundred dollars to the price of a camera, and someone > else will come along and scoop that camera's potential customers with a > lower priced unit, and the product becomes a money loser. > Or, they have to sell the unit at a price which does not allow them > sufficient profit to make up for the extra feature (in this case, an > aperture simulator), and the product becomes a money loser. > It's purely a money thing. > I'm surprised you don't understand that. > > William Robb > > > -- 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
