Get out of here with this stuff. You think the pentax DS did or didn't have the K/M hardware integrated because of the population/market size of these lenses in the field ? What makes you say that, there was so much backlash that pentax had to come up with the green button band-aid right away to stop the bleeding... jco
-----Original Message----- From: Adam Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: more green button wars 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 >> >> >> >>
