----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: K1D aperture simulator survey,part Deaux Now in Digest mode to save bandwidth.
> Just pointing out that you cant just give a "total saved" > Number to mean anything. You are also not countiing > In lost sales/profits due to missing features which is just > As relevant as cost savings per camera by removing them. The number of people for whom it is really important is statistically very small. Most buyers of new cameras nowadays want lenses that take advantage of all that the camera offers, they don't want some hobbled down old lenses that don't take advantage of all that the camera can do. DSLR camera are light years ahead of K/M lenses in terms of functionability. If they put a mostly unwanted feature into a camera, then everyone pays for that feature, whether or not they want it. If the feature is mostly unwanted , then if it is not there, it will be mostly unmissed. Of those people who miss it, some will shrug it off as of little consequence and get on with life, and a very few will lose their minds over it and not buy the product. So, Pentax can put the product into the stores with a smaller price tag which makes it more affordable, and cosequently, more desirable, which will translate into more sales, and they have saved their entire customer base money, which may allow them to buy an additional lens that can take advantage of the camera's capabilities. The number of sales they will lose is very small when compared to the number of sales they might gain on this one feature, especially when the old lenses in question are still perfectly usable if the customer chooses to hobble themselves with those lenses. I wonder how many more DSLR sales Canon would have made if they had enabled backwards compatability of FD lenses into the EOS mount? Evidently, Caon isn't terribly concrned about that group of customers, and there were a hell of a lot more of them than there were Pentax K/M customers (of which JCO is not one). William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
