On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:14:14AM -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > >My sentiments exactly. I've just finished selling off the rest of my > >pre-AF Pentax lenses (keeping only the A50/2.8 Macro) since I've replaced > >all of them with the newer, better performing current series offerings. > >Adding cost to the package to support 20+ year old lenses is less > >desirable to me than making a very fine camera with good ergonomics, > >responsiveness, etc. > > > It's been well-established (primarily by the short burst from a > troll awhile back) that it's a very minimal additional expense.
That's a gross mis-representation of the true situation. While it was generally agreed that the actual cost of the pieces of hardware were not a large expense, the additional costs were not so trivial. These included extra electro-mechanical parts (more things to go wrong).
