"Pentax clearly believes" is not true. You don't know why they did it. Alternative reasons include forcing you to buy new lenses to get your basic lens functions back that the body is disabling for only $5.00 in cost savings. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:04 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The JCO survey Christian wrote: >And WHERE in ANY of my posts did I say it was left out for "cost or >technical" reasons? I only said that Pentax is moving to the future. But it was left out for cost reasons: Even at a very lowball estimated cost of $5.00 per camera, that's $50,000.00 extra expense on a production of 10,000 units. Pentax clearly believes there wouldn't be enough extra sales generated to justify this cost. Moving to the future just happily coincides with this reality. Be prepared to say goodbye to aperture rings on all new lenses soon. (We may indeed have seen the last Pentax lens with an aperture ring already.) -- 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
