Bipin Gupta wrote:
Even the great B&H took me for a ride with a brand new K20D I ordered
in early 2009 - sent me a camera with over 600 shutter actuations.
My reply:
When you buy a new camera, whose files are numbered starting from IMGP0001
or the like, you buy a shutter who has already fired a few hundred times.
That's part of the manufacturing/testing process. So in case your K20D wrote
files starting from IMGP0001 but a dedicated software revealed 600 shutter
cycles, that perfectly normal. On the contrary if your K20D was already
showing IMGP0600 from the start, that's odd.
Bipin Gupta wrote:
At just $ 95 more the Pentax K-5 II is an awesome deal. But tell me,
the Pentax K-5 IIs has one component less - the anti aliasing filter -
so why is it not selling cheaper than the K-5 II???
My reply:
The K-5IIs has a different filter combo than the standard K-5II (see the
Euro brochure, which shows both filter assemblies when describing SR
mechanism), which means one different component and not one component less.
The much lower manufacturing quantity for both the filter assembly and the
manufacturing batch of the K-5IIs could justify a higher price. I don't know
if the current difference just reflects that higher manufacturing cost.
Probably the price point is even higher than that, but a somewhat higher
price has a reason in the lower manufacturing run.
Dario
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