>From: "Digital Image Studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: CF v SD Cards >Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:17:09 +1000 > >On 23/08/06, John Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joe, > > > > You are ridiculous. The attitude Pentax has displayed over lenses is >that > > it has kept better compatibility than any other manufacturer, and shows >no > > sign of changing that now. When they discovered that some people wanted > > to use thirty year-old lenses on the *ist D, they issued a fix so that > > they could do so. > > > > That's what I call loyalty to customers. > >When they "discovered" that some people wanted to use thirty year-old >lenses ? > >You are kidding, dropping the aperture simulator was no more than a >bold move by marketing to create a demand for new lenses. > >-- >Rob Studdert >
Do you mean like when they decided to go with APS-C and call the new lenses 'digital lenses'? Which all the mfrs, did as a means to get into the DLSR market quickly, cut costs on DSLR production, and sell a wagonload of new lenses? Like that? :-) Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
