On 25/11/06, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That $35.00 (US currency) is the estimated manufacturing cost per unit > that I got from a recently retired Pentax rep. In a normal marketplace, > that would translate to about a $150.00-$200.00 retail cost increase to > the end user of the equipment. > The retail camera marketplace is too competitive to allow that kind of > cost increase on consumer level DSLR bodies, which is all Pentax is > selling at the moment. > Pentax didn't think including it would generate as many sales as having > a lower end user price would. > Fuckface will disagree, but his connection to reality is tenuous at > best.
I'm sure they weren't trying to deliberately mislead you but logic says this is pure BS. Given that a component for registering lens aperture position was incorporated in every camera including the least expensive for many years. I don't know if it would generate a significant number of sales (I don't expect the additional cost to incorporate it would be large enough to stymie sales) but it sure would make operation of legacy lenses far more natural/intuitive. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
