Because the Green Button hack can be a selling feature 'Yeah, K/M lenses work, but buy new lenses and it's faster, with less hassle and more accurate metering'. Best of both worlds for Pentax.
-Adam J. C. O'Connell wrote: > As far a ducking questions go, a bunch of mine went unanswered too. > How about this one? If pentax removed the aperture cam to sell new > Lenses, then why did they add GB after the fact? > > They cant seem to make up their mind. If they really want to sell > New lenses, then they should drop GB too. If they really want > To support K/M, then they should put the stupid $5 part back in > There and charge for it. They are really being plain out stupid > On the whole issue with the "kludge" "solution". > > JCO > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Shel Belinkoff > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:34 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: The JCO survey > > Answer the question ... the question was "How many K or M series lenses > have you bought brand new in the box from a retailer?" I also asked you > two similar questions, neither of which you answered So, for the last > time, in even simpler terms, over the years, how many new K and M lenses > have you purchased from a retailer? Don't duck the issue. > > BTW, it seems that the resale value of the older lenses is holding up > quite > well. The fact that they can be used on the DSLR bodies seems to have > strengthened their value. > > Shel > > > > >>[Original Message] >>From: J. C. O'Connell > > >>Irrelant. Don't you understand that resale value >>Of the Pentax lenses is important too? If pentax >>Lenses (used) where not bought by anybody, then >>No one would buy them new either. The secondary >>Market is important to pentax and their customers. >>Lastly, I already said it earlier, I prefer MF >>And they don't make any MF lenses or AF lenses with >>MF that have as good a MF focus mechanism as the K/Ms >>Do. I cant buy what they don't sell anymore. >>jco >> >>-----Original Message----- >>William Robb > > >>How many K or M series lenses have you bought brand >>new in the box from a retailer? > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
