I tried a similar argument on Gerri. She said something about cashflow and having to have income to write off... or something, it was all gobbledygook to me....
"That is all fine, but how does that result in me getting what I want?" sez me.

true enough when applied on an industrial scale....

but internet sellers are a different market imho.... the whole concept of "While everyone out there in the world may not be idiots, odds are there is one idiot out there, and maybe he'll pay this much.."

reminds me of guiding trout fishermen in the arctic one summer..
A guy asks me what the fish are hitting on... I show him four hooks.
He pulls out a big tackle box and shows me something completely different than what I suggested.
The sales man had told him that was the best stuff...

I pull out a beer, drink it, flatten the can and proceed to tie it to my line...
"will that work?" the guy asks me...

" If I drag this this beer can around long enough something will bite on it eventually. But I'm here all season fishing every day. I got time. You are here for three days, if you want a fish, what I suggested is what worked yesterday and the day before, you drag that hook you bought in the city around you might as well grab a beer can"

beer would've been cheaper than that lure anyways.

fishin for suckers...

I stopped buyin motorcycle magazines after a debacle where a journalist was fired for accurately reporting that snell testing was causing increased brain injuries in accidents.
the snell standard was supposed to be tougher than DOT testing and most helmet manufacturers started producing snell approved helemts costing twice as much as the dot counterparts. It was true, the helmets were tougher, but in being tougher they transmitted more force through to the brains causing brain injuries, in similar accident situations dot helmets were not causing similar injuries.
That was a situation of both manufacturers and one magazine publisher conspiring to kill the consumers of thier products over ad money.
The journalist got fired when helmet manufacturers threatened to pull thier ad money.

story got out and snell revised thier testing standards and snell approved helmet prices went down.
here is the NY times artical that got the writer fired from Motorcyclist Magazine...
link
sure cameras don't kill people but we are talking about thousands of dollars for a system, and getting duped into buying the system from the mags biggest advertiser is still fraudulent reporting. Call an ad an ad and if the review is bought, call it an ad.

I've heard complaints that some 80-320's don't behave properly on the digital bodies...

and cheap conversion lenses, and teleconverters and macro tubes... which if you add pentax's c mount lens system to you get....pretty much what I said earlier...


oh yeah, Kenko can also make a cheap 500 mm mirror lens availble to Pentax, which if you add some quality hoya glass and pentax multi coatings and wr, might turn out to be a decent budget tele...

What is Kenko known for?
I'm just envisioning what the outcome might be if Mamma Hoya sits the kids, Pentax and Kenko down and tells them to play nicely together.....

I don't think so...
Pentax made a push once to make the k mount an industry standard. Ricoh and others flooding the market with cheap k mount lenses did not push Pentax past Nikon and Canon...... in market share.

I think c mount would vinette on aps don't know for sure. Would certianly come up short on resolving power and look soft... that much for sure.

because pentax already has lenses that could be modified to work...
Take Pentax designed lenses, add hoya glass, let Kenko make the mounts and adaptors and flood the 4/3 and vex mount systems with affordable lenses.... = make money. Take away lens profits from the competition.

Keep the Pentax brand for premium serious tools.

Now pentax/hoya/kenko SHOULD make lenses in the 4/rds and vex mounts....
but bodies? no.
How can pentax match the 15 new models a year the big companies seem to be swamping the market with?

even the rangefinders are using too many expensive optical parts....
reality of Evil class cameras is they are cheaper to manufacture, and do both photos and videos well.
Panasonic has the right idea.
Sony Vex has the the right idea.

Pentax needs to enter this market with the right tool.
a pro caliber, k mount system that does both photos and stills well, and costs a reasonable amount of money.

If I had a say, I'd say build a tank like k5 with detachable evf, flip out lcd, and get the video quality and controls up to a "Prosumer" standard.

People like wedding shooters and indie film makers will buy it.
People that already own Pentax d-slrs but want video cams will buy it.
People that need a back up body will buy it.