On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 09:12:10PM -0400, graywolf wrote: > I keep trying to ignore this thread, but but happened to read this short > post before deleting it. If the thing had a manufacturing cost of $35 it > would cost about $350 retail. Since they put them in a lot of cameras > that cost a lot less than that the comment is BS. Now $35 retail I could > believe. However I guess I can see the engineering point of leaving > something out that is no longer needed with current equipment. Sort of > like they no longer supply a hand crank with cars, they did for several > years after electric starters came out. I understand British build cars > with Lucus starters had them up into the 50's <grin>.
A lot longer than that, actually. My first car was a Morris Minor, built in the latter part of the 1960s. It still had a hand crank - an option which was quite valuable on more than one occasion. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
