Pentax brought the Green Button fix to satisfy a loud minority of users
who were complaining. If it had been a majority, the DS would have
gotten the hardware necessary instead of continuing with the software
fix. Pentax isn't stupid. But they don't agree with you either.
The people complaining about the lack of hardware are a minority amongst
the old K/M users, who are already a minority amongst Pentax's market.
If it was otherwise, we'd have the hardware, because it would be worth
implementing to Pentax if a large minority or majority of the market
required it. As it is, it's not worth it to Pentax to make the changes.
-Adam
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
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
