Re: Old lenses and *ist D

[graywolf]

Actually, there is (somewhat). As told to me by a Pentax rep, who was 
told by a Pentax engineer, the cost would have been about $50 per unit. 
Whether that is manufacturing cost or sales cost, I do not know. 
However, see my other post in this thread about engineering timelines, etc.

William Robb wrote:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Francis"
Subject: Re: Old lenses and *ist D




This still comes down to demanding that everybody pay
the extra $10 or so, even if this is for functionality
they don't want and will never use.


No offence, but everyone keeps pulling numbers out of thin air. Sometimes
it's ten bucks, sometimes it's twenty, but no one with any authourity has
actually come up with a real hard and accurate number for how much extra,
overall, this camera would have had to cost with K/M compatability.
Since, as JCO pointed out, the camera is already more expensive than a Canon
10D (whatever), and is way more expensive than the Rebel digital (like about
500 bucks), it seems to me that adding even more to the cost of the camera
for a dubious benefit wouldn't have been very smart.
William Robb


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