I keep trying to ignore this thread, but but happened to read this short post before deleting it. If the thing had a manufacturing cost of $35 it would cost about $350 retail. Since they put them in a lot of cameras that cost a lot less than that the comment is BS. Now $35 retail I could believe. However I guess I can see the engineering point of leaving something out that is no longer needed with current equipment. Sort of like they no longer supply a hand crank with cars, they did for several years after electric starters came out. I understand British build cars with Lucus starters had them up into the 50's <grin>.
--graywolf -- William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shel Belinkoff" > Subject: RE: The JCO survey > > >> A couple of questions: >> >> How do you know the part in question costs $5.00? > > The best information I have recieved is that the manufacturing cost per > unit would be closer to US$35.00, and Pentax doesn't believe it is in > their best interest to include this feature in their DSLR line. > > William Robb > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
