As I expected you don't know. The absence of data is not data.
Mark Roberts wrote:
>P. J. Alling wrote:
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>>I'm sorry, but how the hell do you have sales figures on a product
>>that doesn't exist?
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>??? The two products I mentioned specifically were the K100D, for which
>demand is exceeding production capacity, and the K10D which is
>generating sales deposits (including mine) even before it is on the
>shelves.
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They don't know how many more sales they'll get with an aperture
simulator included, part of the reason they're getting these pre-orders
it the touted backward compatibility. If were better wouldn't it be
logical to expect better sales to old farts like us? I'm certain that
they'd have one more if it had one. In fact I think there'd be a lot
more. There may even be pre-orders by old users who don't know the
limitations caused by lack of an aperture simulator, it's so seldom
mentioned in the reviews. Those people will be disappointed and won't
help create positive buzz about the next camera release. We get a
number of questions on this list about that regularly. How many of them
decided to stay with Pentax or move on. We don't know, and neither
does Pentax.
>The success of these, and earlier Pentax DSLR's, indicates that the
>lack of the aperture simulator isn't costing them sufficient sales to
>be concerned about.
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>
Which may not last. They still need all the sales they can get, and
every useful feature helps.
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