Mark Erickson wrote:
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Anyone here with manufacturing engineering background care to actually make
some estimates? Say in the number of engineering hours, broken down into
design, development, integration, and test?
I guess I have *some* relevant experience, but I don't think I want to
try to give you any figures (but what I can say is that you must always
remember to multiply the numbers you do get by 2/3pi ;-)) What you've
got to remember, though, is that we're talking about an existing, well
tested component and engineers that (presumably) have a lot of
experience in integrating that component into similar units. This
*significantly* reduces the number of hours needed.
Anyone care to estimate the
number of lost sales of *istD and *istDs cameras due to limited K/M support?
100 cameras? 1000? 1 million?
That's also hard to say, of course.
I think the real question is how much being able to say "Pentax is the
(only) camera company that offers full compatibility between lenses and
bodies" is worth in marketing terms. And, I guess also how much weaker
they have made that argument by putting themselves in a position where
they have to include a note saying "usable with limitations" in their
brochures.
That's all there is to it, isn't it?
- T
