On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:19:59AM +1000, Rob Studdert wrote: > On 28 Feb 2006 at 15:59, William Robb wrote: > > > Considering that their first DSLR body was barely compatable with pre A > > series lenses, I hardly think that anyone has led anyone on. > > The display of a FF DSLR followed by the *ist D with it's lack of aperture > ring > support then the gradual roll-out of aperture ring-less DA lenses and now the > discontinuation of the FA lenses was orchestrated in such a way as to > deceive.
That's conspiracy theory running rampant. The MZ-S was a one-off, high-end completion of the MZ range, designed as the end of the film line for the advanced amateur. As such, it made a fair amount of sense, at the time, to base a possible digital camera on a camera that (superficially, at least) shared that design. If the MZ-D had made it to market, then I expect that the Pentax DSLR lineup would look very different; we may very well have had cameras which allowed aperture setting on the lens, as well as from the body - the PZ cameras showed that was possible. But that's as maybe - the MZ-D never got out the door, and the world moved on.
