If this were true, K/M would have disappered it the film SLRs years ago, it didnt,,, Pentax doesnt want you buying used KM lenses... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.C. O'Connell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----Original Message----- From: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Old lenses and *ist D Actually, there is (somewhat). As told to me by a Pentax rep, who was told by a Pentax engineer, the cost would have been about $50 per unit. Whether that is manufacturing cost or sales cost, I do not know. However, see my other post in this thread about engineering timelines, etc. William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Francis" > Subject: Re: Old lenses and *ist D > > > > >>This still comes down to demanding that everybody pay >>the extra $10 or so, even if this is for functionality >>they don't want and will never use. > > > No offence, but everyone keeps pulling numbers out of thin air. Sometimes > it's ten bucks, sometimes it's twenty, but no one with any authourity has > actually come up with a real hard and accurate number for how much extra, > overall, this camera would have had to cost with K/M compatability. > Since, as JCO pointed out, the camera is already more expensive than a Canon > 10D (whatever), and is way more expensive than the Rebel digital (like about > 500 bucks), it seems to me that adding even more to the cost of the camera > for a dubious benefit wouldn't have been very smart. > > > William Robb > > -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com "You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
