Rob Studdert wrote: >On 25 Mar 2006 at 13:39, Tim Øsleby wrote: > >> This was directly to the point Ralf. >> I am convinced the manufacturers have been waiting for this. What surprises >> me is that they thought we would believe this nonsense. > >Too true, though if they are only assembling units from stocks of old leaded >boards then maybe there is a little credence to it.
I can't imagine that they *wouldn't* have been assembling units from stocks of previously manufactured boards. I'd bet money that Pentax has been building the 645 and 67 that way for some time. Certainly, the camera manufacturers saw this regulation coming. They were faced with a decision to make: Change manufacturing processes to meet the new regulation or take the new law as an opportunity to obsolete the affected products. Had the worldwide transition to digital taken place a little more gradually, they might have considered the first option. As things have turned out in reality, the decision was a no-brainer.
