When you take a position you defend it even when it's indefensible. The problem is people on the list
who don't know better will take your word as gospel. The LX had at least limited but useable compatibility
with all previous Pentax made lenses for their 35mm cameras. As a "landscape photographer" you know exactly
what that means. The *ist series abandons the usability part of that equation.
At 05:07 PM 7/3/03 +0200, you wrote:
Arnold wrote:
It would have been better not to have added your two sentences because they simply and absolutely are not true. I, for example, am in the market for a new Pentax DSLR, and I only WILL try to get such a camera in a yard sale or at Ebay for 20% of retail, if it won't have better backwards compatibilty than the pre-production models that we have seen. I only spend real money on new products when they are convincing and not unneccessarily devalued.
REPLY:
It IS true. You are just an exception.
The funny thing is that the *ist D has better compatibility than the LX had when released. The LX was only fully compatible with 5 year old lenses compared to the *ist D 20 year! The LX was compatible with future lenses and I expect the *ist D to be as well. The LX didn't have the selection of compatible lenses when new as the *ist D has. Still, people bought it anyway!
P�l
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