hi, I am not "bitching" about old technology, I am bitching about Pentax's new policy to degrade older products, even high end ones, functionality WITHOUT CAUSE.
My use of capitol lettering is only for emphisis in plain text messaging because other fonts like italics are not available and certain words need emphisis for better understanding. Its not shouting, its better communication. I never use all caps like you suggested I did. jco -----Original Message----- From: John Celio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 10:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm >> 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_F A_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. -- http://www.neovenator.com AIM: Neopifex "Hey, I'm an artist. I can do whatever I want and pretend I'm making a statement."
