William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J. C. O'Connell" > Subject: RE: The JCO survey > > >> FYI, The K1000 was selling for $150 brand new >> Well into the 1990's and its got hundreds >> Of itty bitty parts that need delcate assembly >> And It had ALL the parts for the aperture >> Cam sensor included at that very low selling price at that time. >> You are mistaken if you think the cost of the part >> Is prohibitive to making a profitable camera model with it >> Included. > > Pentax had to move production of that camera from Japan to China to > allow it to be made cheaply enough, and they made a whole bunch of > changes to the camera to cut cost corners. More plastic, less metal, > esentially slave labour. > When they couldn't continue to make is at a price that would sell, even > with a cheap labour pool, they dropped production. > > The world has changed now, the Chinese aren't as interested in being > peasant factory slaves nowadays, and well off populations need to > understand that. > > William Robb >
Indeed, note the cost of a new Nikon FM10 (or other variant of the Cosina SLR), which is much cheaper to build than a K1000, but sells for $200+ dollars today. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
