Re: REV: *istD: to wait or not to wait that is the question

[Paul Stenquist]

Sure, you could buy another screwmount film body when the Ks came out, 
but not a Pentax That's why I switched to Fuji when I needed a new 
camera in 78. And that's why Pentax lost a lot of their loyal Spotmatic 
users. If they had started with a bayonet mount early on, they would 
have been okay. But they switched right after they had built a loyal 
following of screw mount lens users. I think that's why they've been so 
careful about lens mount compatibility ever since.
Paul
On Sep 4, 2004, at 11:48 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:

On 4 Sep 2004 at 21:42, Paul Stenquist wrote:
But the k-mount was a crippled mount for screw mount lenses. No open
aperture metering. It was more severely limiting by far than the
supposedly "crippled" *istD mount is for M and K lenses.
I don't buy this argument. All you needed to do was pick up another 
suitable
film body. When the film *ist was released it was crippled but I 
didn't affect
me in the slightest, I kept on using my other Pentax Film bodies 
happily. The
*ist D however is Pentax's one and only digital body.

Rob Studdert
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