Rob Brigham wrote: >Surely you wouldnt market a camera when you could not get the parts >anymore even before it is launched?
Oh yes they would! R&D on this baby cost a fortune and it's time to get some of that back. Contax is rumoured to be in dire financial straits and some kind of return is crucial. >This would be commercial suicide: > >1 if they sell like hotcakes you cant supply any more. Having demand exceed supply is a *good* thing. harley-Davidson has used this to keep prices up for years in a price-competitive market. >2 if there are problems, you cannot get components to repair them >under warranty and have to refund your customers money. Keeping stock for spares would be part of the original purchase plan. Always is. >I would guess that either Philips has some exclusive deal with Contax >and cannot supply anyone else, or they were already contractually >obliged to supply Contax but they are making a loss on the product so >dont want to supply anyone else, or Contax are buying as much stock as >they can produce so there is none to supply to anyone else, or Contax >havent been told that Philips have ceased supply. > >I just cant believe Contax would issue this release unless they had an >ongoing supply of these parts... I'm *certain* they would, *especially* if they've already invested a fortune in buying these devices for current production, but I also believe that Philips will be building these parts again within a year. If the February release date gets puched back at all, the Contax probably won't be widely available for quite a while. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: 16 November 2001 02:00 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: First 6-mp full-frame digital SLR is out >> >> >> "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >On 15 Nov 2001, at 14:19, Rob Brigham wrote: >> > >> >> And at $6500 US! >> >> >> >> This is inside the tantaive price spoken by Pentax for the MZ-D. >> > >> >Hi Rob, >> > >> >Pentax never made claims about the price, the figure that >> was floating about >> >was a speculated price only based on the cost of one off CCD >> purchase that >> >was printed in one of the French photo magazines. >> > >> >> Sounds like Pentax had a change of heart then, because the >> sensor is >> >> obviously available, and it can be done for the money that >> was rumoured. >> > >> >The CCD has been confirmed to be unavailable as per Mark >> Roberts reports >> >to the list, the information is straight from Philips AFAIK. >> >> Well, Philips *says* it IS available...but I got the infinite >> runaround when >> trying to get information on procuring any for my company. My >> surmise is that >> it's in the catalog but they aren't building them now for >> financial reasons (no >> matter how expensive it is, it won't sell in sufficient >> volume to be worthwhile >> for them at the moment). >> >> If the Contax is really in production, they may have already >> purchased what they >> needed for the initial build. Who knows. Let's see what >> happens in February. >> -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
