Boy - talk about clutching at straws! You might as well ask what would happen if Nikon made a K-mount body; I'd say that's more likely than a Samsung (designed for the masses without any Pentax history) with a mechanical aperture sensor.
The Samsung bodies do, of course, have the *actuator*; without it you wouldn't be able to stop down any of the existing lenses (up to and including the DA lenses). If the DA* lenses were missing the aperture actuator then they wouldn't work on the *ist series (except at one aperture setting - wide open, I believe), which means they wouldn't work on the earlier Samsung bodies. I consider that somewhat unlikely. On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:25:23AM -0700, Jim Apilado wrote: > I wonder what would happen with the Pentax/Samsung relationship if Sam > decided to make a dslr with the actuator for older K lenses. Iknow I would > seriously consider a Samsung if it had full compatibility with older K > lenses. > > Jim A. > > > From: Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > > Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:39:42 +0200 > > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Pentax Life > > > > The image posted there > > (http://pentaxlife.com/files/2006/10/samsung-star-lenses.jpg) made me > > think about something: > > The lenses shown on that picture seem to stay verticaly very nicely > > (without rear cap). Is that a sign indicating no mechanical coupler > > anymore? Maybe it is just hidden (hole in the plastic) or the lenses > > aren't finished or simply, Samsung do not care for their market so > > scrapped it ? > > > > -- > > > > Thibault Massart aka Thibouille > > ---------------------- > > *ist-D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
