Mr. PAL - I think if you provide valid or ANY reasons to explain you positions ALONG WITH your positions you would better served.
The first one is funny -if more people want to buy something than want to sell it - the price goes up. and since the supply is fixed AND known to be large, that means theres more DEMAND than before the prices went up. How can you say that "lots" of people dont want them? That could only be true if these lenses were rare but they are not as about half of all PK lenses ever made are K/M type which is very important data provided by YOU. This is basic economics... You think thousands of dollars or even hundreds of thosands of dollars FOR THE COMPANY is expensive for a very valuable feature THEY CAN SELL - not give away. The cost per body to implement is far less than the income dollars per body they can sell it for IMHO. Thats not unreasonable, thats how companies make money. Develop features that cost less to develop than they generate in revenue. This is basic business economics. Your last comment is unsupported. What leads you to believe this is the case? The exact number of K/M lenses sitting around in closets unused is unknown except for the fact we know its somewhere between zero and roughly 9 million....But you are claiming MOST of them are, WHY are you making that claim? I certainly wouldnt bet on that number as being correct.... JCO -----Original Message----- From: Pål Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:41 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Im getting tired of arguing but in my > experiences with ebay which are vast, > the K/M lenses that are going for big > bucks now have always gone for big bucks > and most likely because there are lots > of them WHERE YOU CANT BUY IT NEW(same specs)EVEN > IT YOU WANTED TO. Thats one of the key > reasons I feel that K/M support should continue It doesn't mean that lots of people want them. It only means that there are more people that wants to buy them than those who sell them. Hardly anyone wants these lenses. > considering its not imcompatible and > absurdly low cost to implement in > ANY Pentax SLR/DSLR. An argument taken out of thin air. Implementing this feature is expensive and will cost the company thousands if not hundreds of thosands of dollars to implement. >At least in one > model, even if only the top line model > once they have a line...There are too > many LNA K/M lenses to disable over such > a single cheap part ommisson... There aren't many lenses is use. Most of them sit in people closets and thats where they will stay.... Pål
