----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The idea behind my message above was to provide something to adjust and > tweak. If you really think that Pentax is losing out as a company by not > providing full K/M compatibility, it shouldn't be too hard to see which of > my above estimates are off and adjust them. My guess regarding your > thinking is that you might argue that the 1200 lost sales per year is low. > What do you think? 12000? 10% of the 120K total hoped-for sales? That > would yield something like $600K in lost earnings, which starts to get large > enough to matter on a corporate level. But in addition an number of users will upgrade to FA lenses in order to get the added functions. Judging from the PDML this is pretty common. So the *istD generate new lenses sales perhaps more than compensating any loss... Pål
