Simple. Most of those truckloads of lenses are sitting at the back of a
closet collecting dust, and much of the ones in current use are 50mm's
on a school's K1000's. If there was a large market for K/M lens users
going digital, the DS would have had the hardware integrated. There's
just enough market (or at least complaining) for Pentax to keep with the
kludge they're currently using.
Same reason why Nikon's dumped that compatibility on it's low/mid range
digitals. No real market for it.
-Adam
Mishka wrote:
now that's just plain... strange comment.
what exactly would be the reason preventing the owners of the
aforementioned truckloads of K/M lenses looking to buy into
Digital (or DigitaL)?
mishka
On 9/19/05, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While the lenses do exist, the number of owners looking to buy into
Digital or modern film are a fairly small fraction of the current
market. Barely worth supporting, and not worth the extra engineering
required to integrate the extra functionality into the design (Hardware
is always harder to integrate than firmware, hence the firmware fix).
-Adam
