You must have missed my LICENSING comment. This is done all the time in high end audio. Specialty makers license and modify products for niche markets rather than attempt to start from scratch. That wouldnt make any sense for a M42 DSLR product. joco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:37 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: 85mm f1.8 SMCT on ebay : $400+ But Pentax or any other major won't do it. Only a niche marketer would ever consider it. They'd be starting from scratch. Down the road, way down the road that might happen. Won't happen now. Paul On Feb 20, 2007, at 10:13 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > There are millions of M42 lenses actually owned > by people. I dont have any cost numbers, but I am > talking about a modification of a current design licensed or > something & > just adding the lens M42 pin actuator instead of > the kmount lens lever actuator. this would NOT > be designing an entirely new DSLR camera from scratch. > The metering would be identical to the GB now on KM lenses > for Pentax DSLRs except pushing a M42 lens pin instead of pushing > a K lens lever. > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of > Paul Stenquist > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:49 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: 85mm f1.8 SMCT on ebay : $400+ > > > All your points are valid. But are the numbers there? The investment > is probably around fifty million dollars. Are there enough buyers out > there to pay that off? You should talk to some venture capitalists > and see if you can find some who might want to fund such a venture. > If you can't get the money, it's probably a bad bet. > paul > On Feb 20, 2007, at 9:38 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > >> 1. Because you CANT BUY manual focus lenses new anymore and they are >> better for manual focussing if that is your preference. 2. Because >> they are way cheaper for same quality or way better for same price or >> buy way more for same price and quality. 3. There are way more primes >> available in M42 than in the current pentax AF lineup. >> 4. See my last post - this would be ideal for people who already >> have a bunch of high quality M42 lenses, those people wouldnt >> need to buy new lenses, they want a new BODY to use what they >> already have. >> 5. and "scouring ebay" is not that much different than buying >> new online with the search engines they have. >> >> jco >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of >> Scott Loveless >> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:25 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: 85mm f1.8 SMCT on ebay : $400+ >> >> >> On 2/20/07, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Also the inability buy a lens on demand is a big minus. Why scour >>> eBay >> >>> & the second hand stores for the lens you want when you can buy a >>> brand new [snip] Pentax AF lens? >>> >> MAAAAAAARK! >> >> -- >> Scott Loveless >> http://www.twosixteen.com >> Shoot more film! >> >> -- >> 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 > > > -- > 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 -- 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
