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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
09-05-2015, 05:39 AM
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Production cycles of camera bodies an lenses are handled like it was for book printing in the old days.
There will be fixed production lines only for the best selling models. For the others, they may produce a charge of what they think they can sell for the next 12 months, then change for another model, and so on. If needed, a production line could be (costly!) re-installed at a later time.
As a result, when production of an item finally ends, there will still be enough there to sell for anything from 3 months to 3 years.
In some cases, they delay announcement for several months, otherwise sales would be hurt too much and they would have to sell under production cost. I someone leaks the fact too early, the company will loose a lot of money.
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