On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Collin R Brendemuehl wrote: > And I think the N65 also won't use them. > It wouldn't be a surprise if the same users of old > Nikon lenses are complaining in just the same manner > as we're hearing right here.
As a guy who uses Nikons professionally and Pentaxes for fun I can tell you that Nikon guys do complain about it, or rather did since it is old news now. There are two subtle differences, however. 1) You can still buy Nikon film and digital cameras that use the old lenses with full functionality. They are the expensive pro models, but that makes some sense as the guys with expensive old pro lenses that they would like to keep using with new cameras are usually pros. Most folks don't really have a great investment in lenses and are seduced by newer zoom lenses anyway. Of course PDML types are probably exceptions to this... 2) There are very few lenses that Nikon ever made that they don't still make in an equivalent or better (if often more expensive) version. Granted, this doesn't inherantly help you use any older nikon lenses you may have with new "crippled" cameras, but it does mean that you can buy a newer version that will work. The "flaw", as it were in the argument that Pentax is trying to make it impossible for you to use your old lenses so that you buy new ones is that in some cases Pentax no longer makes anything that looks like a replacement. DJE
