I think it's the tooling that costs a lot. Once you've got the molds for the plastic, it's cheap.
After owning a K20 for 1+ years, I bought one of the 3rd party grips. I made sure to get one with the wheel on the vertical release as some did not have this feature. It works well for bigger lenses and it's light, but still adds bulk to what you must carry around. I question buying one for the K-7. Battery life is good. Battery depletion is a soft failure. And a spare battery is a lot smaller than the grip. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:38 AM, eckinator <eckina...@gmail.com> wrote: > IIRC this also went around in reference to a grip for the K10D or K20D > and someone believed it was the company making the grip for Pentax > that had done another production run... goes to show that R&D and > short life cycles are huge cost factors in this case, not materials & > labor. I'd still rather go Pentax > Cheers > Ecke > > 2009/12/22 SV Hovland <p...@heime.org>: >> http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.31967 >> >> First of all it is interesting to see how cheap it is possible to >> manufacture this for and send it around the world. I can buy 7 of these >> including postage from Hong Kong to Norway cheaper than one single original >> Pentax grip bought locally. It has of course unknown quality, but I still >> think it will have some impact on the sales for Pentax, at least in Norway. >> >> >> Stig Vidar Hovland >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
