the digital sensor in the *istD has nothing to do with K/M lens functions. They certainly could have done the same as they did for their film cameras in that respect. JCO
-----Original Message----- From: Keith Whaley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: istDs - what a great camera! Rob Studdert wrote: > On 15 Sep 2004 at 18:40, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > >>You still don't get it. Pentax didn't change their lens mount. K and M >>lenses work just fine with the *istD. Nearly everyone on the list who >>owns an *istD uses them on a regular basis. I think you should try it >>before you form an opinion. The mechanical linkage is an unnecessary >>addition that might well interfere with some other operation. > Paul you know advertising/marketing, do you really truly think that > dropping > the compatibility was more than a sales tools? There really is NO SOUND > TECHNICAL REASON for its exclusion... My emphasis, above... So far as you know, you mean. Unless you sat in on production engineering meetings that approved all changes before the final design was complete, how can you possibly that? I suggest you don't. All these hard and fast pronouncements of "fact" are little more then educated suppositions. Good ones, but... Might be true, right? Then again, might not... hmmm. keith whaley > Pentax have been able to integrate it > successfully for years on all bodies from the cheapest to the most expensive > (but for a few cameras not worthy of the Pentax name). > > > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > > >
