producing a product is based on marketing. It's not a conspiracy if a company makes a marketing decision.
It may be a bad decision, especially if it angers it's customer base. But conspiracy? Never.
Jens Bladt wrote:
Correction: The problem is that a good SLR system is - economically - 90% lenses and 10% bodies. That's what professionals will buy. But most people will maximum buy 50/50. That's why pro camera manufacturers can sell expensive bodies. Small companies have to make relativly expensive bodies to compete - and then try to reduce lens costs. That probably why Pentax does not have IS and have started to make lenses without aperture rings. Jens
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You can't argue with the conspiracy theorists, but I think they've got the significance of the decisions in totally the wrong order.
I very much doubt that lens sales enters into the decision-making procedure; the fact that there may be some new lens sales is no more than a bonus. The primary decison is "if we put a mechanical aperture coupler in the body, will we be able to make enough extra income to make up for the additional cost in research, engineering, testing & manufacture?". I doubt it - while there are one or two die-hards who won't buy a camera that only works with lenses made in the last 20 years, there are probably more people who are price- driven, and would be deterred by the extra cost (note that we're talking about the *ist film camera; a price-sensitive product).
http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=httOr it might be true that all new Pentax lenses would have no aperture ring so that they could produce IS/USM in the near future.
Regards, Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
Actually I think leaving out compatibility was a marketing decision, (the
engineers probably had the mount
designed with a aperture simulator lever), the marketeers said, if they
can't use old lenses they'll have to buy
new ones. Upper management said great, and we'll save 1,100 yen on
manufacturing per. unit. This caused
a s*** storm which the firmware fix somewhat abated.
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