> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:04:46 -0400 > From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: canon vs pentax > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Jun 12, 2004, at 2:18 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: > > Over the years, > > Pentax may well have put out more, and the interoperability across > > generations has only recently been compromised. > > > In what way? With the new firmware, the K and M lenses can be used on > the *ist D with what amounts to ap priority auto exposure.
No. With what amounts to a spotmatic lever. A vast improvment over only metering wide open as originally released, or the Nikon D100 which won't meter old lenses at all, but still not as responsive as true auto exposure or auto metering in manual mode if you are working fast in changing light. >What more > could one expect? IIRC some of pentax's most recent FILM bodies also lack the aperture feedback lever, and they don't have the firmware fix as far as I know. Also IIRC the new DA lenses don't have aperture rings, which makes them kind of hard to use on an MX. Granted, with the decreased image circle of an APS-format-optimized lense you wouldn't want to, but that is just another decrease in intergenerational compatability. This doesn't surprise me, as mechanical connections between camera and lens are a bit old-fashioned. As to what I could expect, I expect Pentax to continue to sell one camera with an aperture feedback lever or to re-issue or replace the lenses that will be obsoleted by no longer having such a camera, so as to keep people with good old Pentax lenses from selling them in disgust and buying Canon. DJE
