I strongly disagree. They shouldn't be making new products More apealling but simply disabling features on legacy Products. They should be made more apealling on their Own merits compared to what the legacy products were/are Capable of. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 1:28 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The JCO survey Because the Green Button hack can be a selling feature 'Yeah, K/M lenses work, but buy new lenses and it's faster, with less hassle and more accurate metering'. Best of both worlds for Pentax. -Adam J. C. O'Connell wrote: > As far a ducking questions go, a bunch of mine went unanswered too. > How about this one? If pentax removed the aperture cam to sell new > Lenses, then why did they add GB after the fact? > > They cant seem to make up their mind. If they really want to sell > New lenses, then they should drop GB too. If they really want > To support K/M, then they should put the stupid $5 part back in > There and charge for it. They are really being plain out stupid > On the whole issue with the "kludge" "solution". > > JCO > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Shel Belinkoff > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:34 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: The JCO survey > > Answer the question ... the question was "How many K or M series lenses > have you bought brand new in the box from a retailer?" I also asked you > two similar questions, neither of which you answered So, for the last > time, in even simpler terms, over the years, how many new K and M lenses > have you purchased from a retailer? Don't duck the issue. > > BTW, it seems that the resale value of the older lenses is holding up > quite > well. The fact that they can be used on the DSLR bodies seems to have > strengthened their value. > > Shel > > > > >>[Original Message] >>From: J. C. O'Connell > > >>Irrelant. Don't you understand that resale value >>Of the Pentax lenses is important too? If pentax >>Lenses (used) where not bought by anybody, then >>No one would buy them new either. The secondary >>Market is important to pentax and their customers. >>Lastly, I already said it earlier, I prefer MF >>And they don't make any MF lenses or AF lenses with >>MF that have as good a MF focus mechanism as the K/Ms >>Do. I cant buy what they don't sell anymore. >>jco >> >>-----Original Message----- >>William Robb > > >>How many K or M series lenses have you bought brand >>new in the box from a retailer? > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
