it's not a trivial matter. e.g. look at hasselblad. over the years its biggest competitor has become hasselblad -- used gear. so there is some delicate balance between a healthy secondary market that helps new sales and a used market that kills business.
however, i think pentax had no reason to worry about lost lens sales since their older glass caters to a completely different market segment. and at this point they offer no product like this (fully mechanical, built like tank, silky smooth manual focus lenses). therefore i think it was a dumb desision on their part to ditch a feature that could bring them good PR and user loyalty, if nothing else. i would be very surprised if they haven't realized this yet. i am willing to bet that their professional body (whatever it will be) will have sTimulator. best, mishka (a few grands worth of *new* pentax lenses/cameras, if that matters) On 10/13/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/13/06 11:40 AM, "William Robb", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If that obsolete lens gets resold, they don't see any of that money. > > I know I have no place in this thread but a thought occurred to me. > > BTW, JCO just popped up all of a sudden lately after a long silence only to > be bashed :-), but to me, I remember him being a long time institution of > this list with a lot of old (read: classic) lenses. So, I have absolutely > no bias toward him. > > But my question is this. > Is the used lens market also not helping the new lens sales? It is much > like a used car market. People have to sell or trade-in old cars to buy new > ones, and if the used ones won't sell and the world does not revolve, the > new car sales might suffer as well? > > JCO's purchase of old classic lenses might be contributing to the new lens > sales in a small way. > > I can see his frustration of not being able to use his rather large stock of > lenses in new body etc, but it is also true that things progress. > > That's about where I stop. > > Ken > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
