I totally disagree - you don't drop features that are virtually free to include and of great value to a large portion or ANY customers. This part is so damn simple and cheap and RELIABLE- (Pentax has been making them for over 30 years so I seriously doubt they havent been able to "debug" it yet if there were any design problems...). The decision to drop features is when they are of little value to the customer and expensive to include. This part is just the opposite, its of great value to the customer and dirt cheap to include. K/M lenses were ALL pentax sold for 10 years. That's a ton of great lenses still out there....
I ask you a simple question - would you have not bought the camera or not bought a next higher model if available that had full K/M support if the total cost was proportionlly higher than the extra cost for this part? We are talking very small change for this part. That's my point. if there was a signifigant cost savings maybe , but not for $10 or $20 off on a $600 camera... And lastly regarding the reliability of the part in question, if you don't use K/M lenses then the reliablity of that function doesn't matter. If you do, then working new and possibly failing someday is far better than a valuable function permanenty removed and never functioning at all... JCO -----Original Message----- From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 7:27 AM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: green button wars (again) Gonz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For whatever reason, probably because of certain >competitive features, the whole cam sensor thing got dropped. Right. They aren't going to include a feature that adds parts and assembly costs (and introduces another electromechanical point of failure - the potentiometer - into the system) unless it's demanded by a large majority of potential purchasers. > I.e. they are trying to aim the new DSLR's to a market segment that >does not fit your profile. Since they are trying to survive in a very >competitive and brutal market right now, its hard to second guess their >decisions based on our own little microscopic view of whats good for us. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
