There's no major loss here either, other than the full compatibility of
a lense line that's been dead for 20 years. Not much of a doifference
between that compatibility and the compatibility of a lens line that's
been dead for 30 years.
Listen, I use the D, I mostly use K/M lenses on it, I'm not missing this
functionality much. The arguement is a tempest in a teapot, especially
considering that Pentax abandoned the compatibility in 1997 with the
MZ-50, 6 years before the DSLR's came out.
-Adam
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
WRONG AGAIN-
When they switched from Screwmount to K mount
it WAS NOT THE SAME- Why because back in early
'70's the world was still heavily into prime lenses
and lens changing was a big issue and the screwmounting
of lenses vs bayonet mount was a big disadvantage
to quick lens changing.
SO- when pentax made the jump from screwmount to
k mount a major compatability with old screw lenses
was lost BUT THERE WAS A BIG GAIN TO OFFSET THE LOSS-
namely you now got quick changing modern bayonet
lenses and bodies as a new and valuable feature.
THIS DSLR K/M support abandonment is totally different because THERE IS NO
NEW or valuable FEATURE to offset or even cause the loss. Even if
you want to try to argue that the DSLR body is cheaper without
the K/M support, how much cheaper is it? I doubt the differnece
in price would even be noticed let alone considered in a purchase
so any extremely tiny price reduction without the K/M support
is not a valuable feature gained unless the price reduction was
very signifigant and we know it couldn't be because even very cheap
$125 complete cameras had it.
Understand?
JCO
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 9:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm
Just a note, but when Pentax switched from M42 to K mount, they
essentially did the same thing. All auto-aperture M42 lenses are
stop-down only on K mount bodies, despite being auto-aperture on M42
bodies that supported the feature. So the current situation with the
all-electronic K mount to mechanical lenses is akin to that switch 30
years ago.
