I can't imagine that crowdsourcing is capable of raising enough money to shut down a production line, retool, and make new product.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is an ingenious Kickstarter that has already raised 3x the number > of $$$ they had as their goal and there is still most of the month > left. > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lomography/the-lomography-petzval-portrait-lens > Delivery of the first lenses is supposed to be Feb. 2014 > > It is by an established company (Zenit) and it made me wonder why an > established company like Pentax couldn't do something similar. Take a > lens that everybody wants and Kickstart it. The backers get their lens > before the general public (and often for less than the eventual > selling price) in exchange for their support (and their prepaid WAIT). > The company can judge the level of excitement for a product by the > amount of buzz and support dollars it generates. Delivery is in the > future. > > It would be possible to fund even relatively small Pentax projects > this way, with the manufacturing process even being different than the > mass-produced way, but if successful a particular lens could be moved > into the mass-production methodology. > > Thoughts? > > -- > "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - > Peter Galassi > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
