Now, Robb, and others, are pissed at Pentax because they do not get full compatability with lenses that Pentax has not sold for over 20 years when using them on the new cameras. Any lens manufactured in the past 20 years or so works fine. All Pentax did was abandon the mechanical linkage that told the camera what f-stop the old lenses were set to. No lens since the A series was introduced (in what '84?) have used that linkage. But Pentax continued to put the linkage into all but their cheapest cameras until this past year.
Of course being as I actually prefer those 20+ year old cameras and lenses, I find this whole thing silly as hell. I mean they abandoned me when they quit making the MX <grin>.
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Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
Rob (and others have mentioned it also) said "The transition to EOS mount was not executed in a clandestine manner."
Just wondering what this means? Maybe, it was "before my time", but I was just curious about it all...
tan.
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