Well, since we're all obtuse and stupid, you may have to post your comments about nine or ten more times, maybe twelve.
Since the original K-mount there have been numerous features added to the lenses and the cameras that are dealt with through the lens mount, auto focus being but one of them. And coming up is the new feature of hypersonic (or whatever Pentax will call it) auto focus, where the motor is in the lens. This will require a connection between the lens and the body via - tada! the lens mount and some contact points just behind the mount. Were you to read my post you'd note that a number of new features have been added to lenses and the camera since the advent of the K-mount in 1975. IMO, there's just so much that poor little ol' lens mount is capable of dealing with. Perhaps the mount is reaching the limits of what it can be called upon to do. Anyway, as Buddy Holly once sang, "Rave on ..." Shel > [Original Message] > From: J. C. O'Connell < > How many times do I have to post this - THERE IS NO NEW LENSMOUNT > OR LENSMOUNT FEATURE on the Pentax DSLRs. If there was and it > Was important ( no power zoom for me thank you), that would be > One thing, but there isnt so this isnt being done in the name > Of progress whatsoever. Its all regression because the DSLR cameras > Could fully support ALL K mount lens series fully. K/M support > Isnt being removed for something new and improved. > JCO > > -----Original Message----- > On Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff > Strict definition? Is there a Pentax dictionary somewhere that defines > what a K-mount lens is? > > What a lot of people seem to be overlooking - or at least ignoring - in > these threads is that the K-mount has evolved. It now allows for auto > focus, passing information to the camera body, it makes it possible to > record EXIF data, and it's going to allow the use of the new DA* lenses > with hypersonic auto focus. Might it be possible that there's only so > much > "room" within the lens mount design that in order to have these new > features, and the K/M lenses, the aperture simulator had to go? > > While it would be nice if I could use my K/M lenses a little more > conveniently, and I do want the aperture simulator to return, I'm happy > to > give it up if it means that there will be newer, more advanced lenses to > use on newer, more advanced cameras. I don't want to keep looking back > - I > want to look forward to more interesting developments in lens and camera > technology. > > We're in a new age of photography - it's exciting and dynamic, and > Pentax > seems to be on the verge of a renaissance. I'd like to see it emerge > fully > from the past decade or so of being a photographic has-been and also-ran > and move forward, and perhaps even set the pace, in this decade. It > ain't 1975 any more. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
