On 14/10/06, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/14/06, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A simple apeture cam sensor is not the same as > > An entire body you twit. It IS economincally > > Feasable aa it is about a $5 part, remember? > > jco > > $5/unit > > 13 000 units/month > > Assuming a 12 month production run: > > 13 000x12x5 = $780 000 > > When your talking about the bottom line, and the DSLR market is cut > throat, unless your sure your going to recoup your costs, that's a lot > of money.
Ah but it was built for little if any profit (remember lenses are the only real profit area :-), let's see if it ends up selling for US$5 per unit under the MSRP in a little while then really the math above sort of becomes redundant don't you think? -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
