So, Pentax's promise to produce a line of D-FA lenses with aperture ring
is worthless? I guess JCO is right you can't believe them anymore.
Hello, have you looked at the D-FA lenses they have right now? Here's one:
http://www.pentaximaging.com/products/product_details/camera_lens--smc_P-D_FA_100mm_F2.8/reqID--3092/subsection--Digital_35mm_macro
As for JC and the other people bitching about old technology: calm the fuck
down!
First of all, Mr. JC, I would like to point out that USING ALL CAPS WHEN
WRITING is usually taken as shouting, or at the very least, aggressive
speech. If you want people to stop being so argumentative with you,
consider being less aggressive in your writing. Please.
Secondly, to everyone involved in this debate, try to remember these words:
To each his own.
By this I mean, if someone wants an aperture ring so badly they're prepared
to knock other lenses sight unseen, then let them. Personally, I don't
understand the obsession with something that only makes a lens more
expensive, but I'm not going to tell someone they're wrong because they want
it.
I mean, a camera is a tool, right? Just like a hammer or a microwave or a
nuclear bomb. One uses a tool how one sees fit.
In my humble opinion, however, there's nothing wrong with cutting corners as
long as you can still get the job done to one's satisfaction. Not having an
aperture ring is simply another way of using a tool we call a lens, and as
long as you understand how to use the adjustment wheel on your camera, you
can still get the kind of result you would if the lens had the aperture
ring.
It's called adaptation, folks. Everyone does it from time to time. To put
it simply, Pentax is being forced to adapt, by changing the way some of
their lenses are made, because the current camera industry is forcing them
to. Other SLR-makers' profits are well above Pentax's, and they have to do
SOMEthing to change that so they can stay in business. I'm sorry if you
take that personally, but it's a fact of life.
In the end, I think we should all be happy that we can at least *use* our
old lenses on Pentax dSLRs. Remember that San Francisco panorama I made?
That was shot with an old screw-mount lens. Be glad you're not a Canon
FD-mount user, or an Olympus OM-mount user (or a Konica or Yashica user,
among others). Want to use those old lenses of yours on a current camera?
Sorry, you're S.O.L.
John Celio
P.S.: for any MiSTies out there, no, S.O.L. does not stand for Satellite of
Love.
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