JCO, The thing that you seem unwilling to concede or admit is that these "legacy" lenses CAN still be used, ARE still being used, and still take fine pictures.
Your point about them doing away with the "metering coupler", or whatever it's called, has been made already. Pentax chose to do away with it. For whatever reason, they decided it was good enough. Maybe at some later date the might put it back (I personally doubt it). You say that you no longer trust Pentax because they abandoned 100% compatibility with K & M lenses. That this marks a major shift in Pentax policy. Fine. Buy a Canon and a stack of FD lenses. Oh wait, they wont even fit on the current crop of SLR / DSLR's without the use of an adapter. OK try Nikon and a bunch of AI & AI-S lenses. You can fit some of them, but you can't meter with them at all unless you spring for the top of the line Nikon body. We Pentax users have it pretty good as far as I'm concerned. Also, you keep hammering away at anyone who posts an opinion contrary to your views. And your doing it in such a rude and aggressive way that any credibility you had at the start has vanished. As the saying goes "You'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar". Try backing off the confrontational tone and people will be more inclined to listen. Dave On 9/20/05, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Secondly, the whole product support issue > seems to be lost on you. Its not a simple > matter of how many new units will or wont sell > without a given part in it. It a matter > of continued support of legacy products > whenever possible within reasonable or > no costs. And in my opinion, my strong > opionion, it is NOT a reasonable decision > to cripple the K/M lenses at this time > because of this dirt cheap parts removal > from a $600 plus camera unless there is > another model that does support it and > there isnt... <snip>
