Thanks Piers.
Perhaps he's only reached 80 interested SD-9 owners.
How many SD-9 owners do we have on this list?
How many would be SD-9 owners if the adapter was available for OM mount?
I assume the $6000 development cost would be on top of the production run
cost. If that's true, that makes it pretty expensive. Can I interest anyone
in a $6500 adapter? ;-)
-Mickey.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 5:49 PM
Subject: RE: [OM] Olympus OM lens to Sigma SD9 adapter?
>
> Here's my best paraphrase:
>
> There has not been much demand for the existing adaptors - M42-Sigma sold
> 80, only 10 outside Japan. His reasoning is that if he can only sell 10
> worldwide for the most widely available lenses, what hope is there for the
> more obscure (such as OM). And it cost $6000 to develop that M42 adaptor.
> So, since the cost per piece varies with the volums produced, the minimum
> run practical is 100.
> A one-off will cost $500
> A run of 50 will cost $60 each
> A run of 100 will cost $40 each
> A run of 1000 might cost $10 each
>
> And so far the planned Nikon adaptor is on hold, because he needs to sell
> off some of his remaining 60 M42 inventory. He is worried that having
sold
> 80, he has saturated the market - perhaps only 80 Sigma SD9 were made?
>
> The M42 adaptor was designed by the retired manfacturing chief for the
Nikon
> F, using the same kind of facilities used by Nikon to make test samples,
and
> is at the same level of quality.
>
> Piers
>
>
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