Re: which camera to buy?

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

On Mar 8, 2006, at 4:33 AM, John Whittingham wrote:
And what's wrong with cost-cutting?

It loses them sales and profit to people like myself who will buy  
alternative
lenses like Sigma, Tamron etc.

So ... you won't buy quality Pentax lenses made without an aperture  
ring, a useless appendage from the past, but you will buy crap lenses  
from Sigma because they have an aperture ring ... which on a modern  
body will simply be locked at the A position forever anyway.

That's dumb.

Godfrey