WR - you still havent answered my simple questions regardiing technical and financial possilbity of PENTAX making a better DSLR product that fully supports all PK lens features including K/M AE modes? Well, what your thoughts on the matter, is it technically and or financially possible or not in your opinion? jco
-----Original Message----- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 5:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) ----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) > Well Pentax supports them, in all exposure modes. They certainly > don't > treat them as if they were obsolete. Don't you see a flaw in just about > every bodies logic here? On both sides of this debate? I know I do. > Especially since I have a number of K/M mount lenses which give as good as > or better performance on the APS digital format than they do on film. > The camera may well support the lens, but if the lens doesn't support the camera, then its the same thing, obsolete. Some lenses work, some don't. I have several K/M lenses that are fine on the istD, some that aren't. Most of my A lenses are good, but a couple leave a something to be desired. The ones that give good images on digital work. The ones that don't, whether they are K/M/A/ or whatever, are obsolete for the digital camera. Sorry to repeat myself, but it's not an all or nothing thing. There is a real wide range of what works and what doesn't. Some very good lenses on film just don't cut it on the DSLR. If this makes me seem like I am waffling, to bad. I won't cut down an entire tree to get rid of one wormy apple. William Robb
