is a direct, (very direct), descendant of the Spotmatic F. The meters are electronically interchangeable
with a small amount of surgery on the circuit board. That implies that the same basic design was produced
for about 40+ years. I don't expect any current Pentax design (or for that matter C* or most current N* designs),
to be in production for 1/10 that amount of time. DSLR's have even shorter product lives.
At 08:11 AM 1/21/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Aren't there people on this list using LXs, MXs, and K-1000s? All discontinued? No, not a totally accurate analogy because digital does evolve quicker than analog.
But it seems to me one might reassess how much they might be buying into some company's marketing strategy of "planned obsolescence." And instead assess a digital product's functionality in terms of what they want to use it for -- both with cameras and ...computers.
In a message dated 1/20/2003 2:11:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Doe wrote:
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> > Evolving technology means they are continually developing new and better technology. IMHO, it is really much too soon >to jump to the conclusion they are following the path of planned obsolescence.
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> In this case, it IS planned obsolence as Pentax have stated that their digital camera will get their life span reduced from one year to 6 months. This means that the camera will be
> replaced or discontinued after that date.
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> P�l
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