YOU cant be reading my posts because I already have REPEATEDLY stated that there is no way the parts implemention cost doesn't justify its continued feature in the body. If this part cost the camera buyer $200 more or $100 more or even $50 more would have something to even talk about, but this removal didn't save anywhere near those amounts of money. I would seriously estimate under $20 BUYER PRICE COST over the product run and support of the Fine K/M lenses of which there are propably millions of them and is well worth $20 even if you don't have any yet on $600 purchase. If the camera was $100 total price it would be something to consider but its not a $100 camera. It's a complex very sophicated camera missing a cheap simple parts that would enable dozens of great lens models costing thousands of dollars to fully operate properly.
Kinda like a state of the art computer that cant read DVDs ( DVD drives now cost $20 for general assesment of the $1 cam sensor cost, $20 buyer cost guesstimate) and no way to add any DVD drive to it even if your willing to pay the $20 yourself... JCO -----Original Message----- From: Mark Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:06 PM To: pentax-discuss Subject: RE: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >UMMM, excuse me this wasn't just a cost reduction, this was >a feature reduction...Cost reduction >in itself is always important to remain competetive >no doubt but this was more than that because key >functions were removed so its basically a bottom >of the line model at the top of their line at the same >time. > >secondly, I have 20 years exeperince in an electronics engineering lab >at a manufacturing facility so my opinions are not without any >experiences in the the field either... It's both a cost reduction and a feature reduction. If the feature doesn't justify the cost, the engineering/marketing team will drop the feature to save the money. J.C., why don't you apply some of your 20 years' experience and put some estimates into an email? Things like estimated lost sales, some guesses about NRE costs to get the feature into a camera body, etc.? That way, we can see if we're making similar underlying assumptions. The results might be illuminating as well. --Mark
