I don't always agree with you Aaron, but I'm with you on this. :-) John
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:35:31 +0100, Aaron Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 7, 2006, at 9:29 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > >> There were K lenses listed as current on the Pentax USA website when >> the >> Film *ist was introduced and every high end body, including the MZ-S >> disappeared. True most were special purpose, but you can't say they >> didn't do that to current catalog items. The old days are dead long >> live the New Pentax, they're a marketing company just like everybody >> else. > > Which lenses were these, out of curiosity? New old stock at Pentax > USA, or current, in-production lenses? As far as I understand it, > there hasn't been a non-A lens in actual production for a very, very > long time, regardless of what Pentax USA had in their warehouse. > > Just because a company has an item in a warehouse and brand new, that > doesn't prevent it from being old. For instance, this year I bought a > brand-new SMC-F 50mm f1.4 from Pentax Canada. How old is the F, 20 > years? Would I be howling in complaint if I bought what I knew was a > 20 year old lens and tried to mount it on a body that I knew didn't > fully support it because it was 20 years old? No -- I realize that not > everything is forever. > > I don't see how a company that is making both new bodies and new > lenses, especially new specialty lenses like the Limited lineup, can be > "a marketing company". > > Clearly you have a problem with the lack of support for lenses that you > can buy cheap, secondhand. I'll not hazard a guess as to your age, but > even if you had bought them new 30 years ago, would you not agree that > you'd got your money's worth out of them by this point? > > I'm surprised that people aren't whining that Pentax's new bodies don't > magically add autofocus to their screwmount stuff. > > -Aaron > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
