I think you are seriously overestimating the difficulty in producing/devloping a M42 DSLR, the only signifigant difference from a K100D would be a screw thread flange instead of a K flange and a M42 pin actuator instead of the k lens lever actuator. Nearly all of the remaining hardware would be the same and the software/firmware would be mostly deleting existing features M42 couldnt do. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cory Papenfuss Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 8:33 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: RE: 85mm f1.8 SMCT on ebay : $400+ On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > I wasnt discussing price, but if you already > have the lenses or want to buy high quality M42 > lenses, the higher cost of the body is offset > in the system context because the lenses are > much lower cost ( or no extra cost if you > already have them ) than brand new or recent pentax or canon or nikon > lenses in most cases. > > Yes, low production, high cost electronics items are "rare" but still > do exist. None of my audio gear for example, is mass produced but I > still got them. Look at full frame DSLRs or the new Leica digital RF. > I would not expect a M42 DSLR to be as cheap as a K100D of course. > > jco > I really doubt adding another '0' to the price of a K100D would be able to make it a cost-effective design. Even if everybody who wanted one and was willing to pay for it (that'd be you and maybe 10 other people on the planet), it'd probably have to cost $20K to make back the engineering costs. It's a similar thing to aircraft avionics. What amounts to basically a well-built CB radio costs $2500 new. A similar model costs $1000 for a used one that's 25 years old. The few companies who produce these low-volume devices charge a lot more than what they would if they were commodity. In some cases (like portable GPS's), for almost identical hardware to a consumer-grade on that costs 1/10th the price. -Cory -- ************************************************************************ * * Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA * * Electrical Engineering * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * ************************************************************************ * -- 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
