>> I wonder if the price of A glass will go up and M down? > I'm thinking that A prices will go up and Ms and Ks down.
My thoughts, too. I know that I'm looking at some of my ol' pre-A lenses "in a new light" (so to speak - <g>). I've been lucky in one regard - Over a period of time now I've been gradually selling a number of my old K and M lenses and/or replacing them with A lenses (and an occasional F or FA lens, such as the delightful F* 300/4.5 or the "different" FA* 85/1.4), but this has not been because of the arrival of the *ist-D. Rather, it has been the desire to be able to share some nice lenses with my wife and my daughter-in-law (for program mode use on their ZX-5n's) that has driven this gradual transition to A glass. So, I have been fortunate to have already migrated quite a bit toward eventual A lens use on a Pentax digital body without ever having thought of that reason to change - <g>. However, I don't need A lenses for the manual exposures and aperture-priority autoexposures that I take on my film-based Pentax bodies (LX's, Super A's, ME Supers), and I'm not in any hurry to give up using those ol' workhorse bodies (and their "ancient" chemical-based medium) in any hurry. So, some of my favorite pre-A lenses will probably remain in the stable here for some time yet. For example - sure, I've toyed with the idea of replacing my sweet K 200/2.5 with an A* 200/2.8 (a lens I used to have, a few years ago, too - <g>), but I haven't felt the urge that strongly yet... Fred
