Re: Digital: Motives for upgrade

[Steve Jolly]

My best guess is that it's a consequence of choosing to base the camera 
on the *ist body instead of the MZ-series.  The latter choice would have 
led to the MZ-D, for which Pentax couldn't see a big enough market.

S

Steve Desjardins wrote:

I seriously doubt that firmware 1.1 will drive the *ist D prices back
up.  The real question is why they dropped full compatibility in the
first place.  The current fix is fine, but the mechical aperature
coupler seems like a small feautre on an expensive camera.  Why drop it?
 



Steven Desjardins
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Hi!

None of the proposed IMHO covers it.

Perhaps, they reckoned that producing attractive enough a camera they
would convince enough Pentax users to buy it. Then of course the
prices would drop. Then they would produce their upgrade and even more
people would buy it and prices might as well go upwards.
You see, it is illogical to assume that when Pentax software
department works on version x.y of their software, they don't have
feature set of version x.y+1 or even x+1.0 written someplace well
seen...
I would vote for 4, but I think it is more elaborate...

Boris