No, its not more people sticking with film, its more people buyiing New lenses to get the features back to shoot digital. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Savage Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 7:24 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: K1D aperture simulator survey,part Deaux Now in Digest mode to save bandwidth. But I think you're placing too much emphasis on how much full K/M support would be worth in new camera sales. Take the PDML as an example. If the lack of full metering support was such a deal breaker then there would be a lot more people here still shooting film only. While most would prefer full K/M support, people seem happy enough that they can at least mount their lenses & use them to take pictures. Also quite a few users new to Pentax are initially unaware that these older manual focus K, M & A lenses can be mounted to their new DSLR (the question has been asked many times on the DPreview Pentax SLR forum by newbie Pentax owners). So while you, me and everyone on this list knows about it, & recognise it's benefit's, for a lot of people it isn't even part of their purchasing decision process. Dave On 10/15/06, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just pointing out that you cant just give a "total saved" > Number to mean anything. You are also not countiing > In lost sales/profits due to missing features which is just > As relevant as cost savings per camera by removing them. > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Savage > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 6:20 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: K1D aperture simulator survey,part Deaux Now in Digest mode > to save bandwidth. > > Yep. > > But cameras are now consumer electronic devices, and in a competitive > marketplace any saving to the company is a high priority. > > Dave > > On 10/15/06, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's $130 million in sales revenue, and less than > > $1 million in "savings" > > . > > jco > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of > > David Savage > > Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 4:30 AM > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Re: K1D aperture simulator survey,part Deaux Now in Digest > mode > > to save bandwidth. > > > > On 10/14/06, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A simple apeture cam sensor is not the same as > > > An entire body you twit. It IS economincally > > > Feasable aa it is about a $5 part, remember? > > > jco > > > > $5/unit > > > > 13 000 units/month > > > > Assuming a 12 month production run: > > > > 13 000x12x5 = $780 000 > > > > When your talking about the bottom line, and the DSLR market is cut > > throat, unless your sure your going to recoup your costs, that's a lot > > of money. > > > > Dave -- 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
