Hello Pieter, We were talking about the FILM *IST - not the DIGITAL *IST D. The film *ist is a very inexpensive camera targeted more at first time users who are going to buy the FAJ zooms.
My point was, that the people who complain about the lack of support of older lenses (people who have the lenses, not a first time buyer who stumbles onto one) are not rushing out to buy an entry level SLR - they are using the previously mentioned bodies. The *ist D (digital) issue in regards to lens mount is a different story. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, January 1, 2004, 12:58:52 PM, you wrote: PN> On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 12:32:53PM -0800, Bruce Dayton wrote: >> I don't think that it is targeted at all those who still have pre 'A' >> lenses. Those people generally like the LX, MX, SuperProgram era >> bodies as well as the lenses. PN> This statement doesn't quite make sense to me. PN> It's not just people who own older bodies which are conteporaneous with PN> the older lenses who know of the lense' existance. PN> Even someone whose first Pentax body was a recent MZ-whatever could still PN> see old second hand K lenses on the shelves, buy them, and expect them to PN> work as well in their *istD as they did in their MZ-5 or MZ-S.
