lenses not make the used lenses un-usable.
At 05:52 PM 10/8/03 -0400, you wrote:
Duh!
Of course not. They're in business to make a profit. They cannot make a profit with people buying used lenses.
Bill
----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 5:26 PM Subject: RE: Old lenses and *ist D
> 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." > > >
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