John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:14:14AM -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: >> >My sentiments exactly. I've just finished selling off the rest of my >> >pre-AF Pentax lenses (keeping only the A50/2.8 Macro) since I've replaced >> >all of them with the newer, better performing current series offerings. >> >Adding cost to the package to support 20+ year old lenses is less >> >desirable to me than making a very fine camera with good ergonomics, >> >responsiveness, etc. >> > >> It's been well-established (primarily by the short burst from a >> troll awhile back) that it's a very minimal additional expense. > >That's a gross mis-representation of the true situation. While it >was generally agreed that the actual cost of the pieces of hardware >were not a large expense, the additional costs were not so trivial. >These included extra electro-mechanical parts (more things to go wrong).
The arc-shaped potentiometer was undoubtedly a big issue: It's a non-COTS (common off-the-shelf) part, whomever they were to buy it from. That's a non-starter in today's business environment. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
