On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, P?l Jensen wrote: > If it cost $5 and you sell a million cameras thats five million.
Wow! So if they sold 2 million cameras it would be 10 million! Think of all the savings they could make if they did not manufacture cameras! This feature, like all others, has been and would be sold to the customer. Until the kludge, the only complaint with it was that it had been removed from entry-level film SLRs; nobody had ever thought to complain about paying for it on the -6, the -5 and -5n. Can we drop this please, it's meaningless. > I personally believe that the lens mount without mechanical coupling are > more suited for robotic assembly. Mechanical linkages needs precision and is > probably far more expensive to manufacture I suspect. Therefore I don't > think we will see a completely compatible lens mount in anything but a > top-of-the-line body if at all. A, interesting arguments/conjectures, at last. Pentax's tradition had been that midrange bodies had it as well. But, the way things have regressed, seeing it even in a top-of-the-line body would be nice. Only the current (proposed) top-of-the-line body, the -10D lacks it. Kostas -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
