I am sorry but you certainly can not have been reading or comprehending all my posts because if you had read them you would know I was forced to say it repeatedly, possibly for the third time now, this is totally different than NIKON OR CANON FD situations.
With CANON FD- they lost FD mounting because they totally updated and substantially IMPROVED the entire mount to EOS - That was more like the screw to K upgrade but with much better upgrades than just mounting technique. With this pentax situation there IS NO NEW MOUNT or NO NEW MOUNT FEATURE which necessitated the drop of support of K/M aperture setting communication like FD>EOS DID. With NIKON- THEY STILL SUPPORT those lenses you mention for customers who want and are willing to pay for it, that's much better than Pentax because Pentax does NOT offer it all at this time and might not ever offer it again for all we know. And I do listen. But I do not agree that all opposing opinions are created equal because responses like yours, which grossly overlooked the REASONS behind the FD support changes vs this new pentax change miss the point entirely. Its like we are talking apples and organges because you don't see the key difference between legacy support whenever possible vs. compatibity issues caused by the need for progress. There is NO PROGRESS assocated with this pentax change in policy, it's not even staying the same, its pure regression... JCO -----Original Message----- From: David Savage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) 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>
