On 29/06/07, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The best info I have been able to glean is a manufacturing cost of about > US$35.00 per body sold. What that would do to the retail price, and if the > price increase would dissuade more people from buying than the increase in > compatability would persuade people to buy is, of course, the real question. > Pentax seems to think they know what the answer is.
Knowing the component US$35.00 as a cost at manufacture seems extremely high. The estimated price of the K100D Super is expected to be lower than the K100D and they are adding hardware. At US$35.00 the aperture feedback sensor would have contributed to a considerable percentage of the component costs of many previous base model SLRs, this was plainly not the case. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
