You sound like someone who has invested too much in old equipment and find that the value is reduced by changing marketing philosophy from the producer. So, you are loosing money on your investments. Panic!
The producer doesn´t care, unless you buy a lot of new stocks, not old lenses .-) DagT Den 13. okt. 2006 kl. 23.05 skrev J. C. O'Connell: > You really are a f*(%ing idiot. Only Nikon and Pentax > Have current mounts that are not incompatable with > Their old mounts. You accept crap for all the wrong > Flawed logic reasons. It does not matter one IOTA > What Canon and minolta did with their mounts, it matters > What pentax did and Pentax has NOT changed their > Mounts ( no new features or changes for DSLR ) at all that prevent K/M > support. If you cant understand that you are just what I called you. > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of > John Celio > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 4:49 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: A Call to STFU About JCO > > This is a call for everyone to just shut the f*ck up about J.C. > O'Connell's > ranting and ravings over the aperture simulator. After this post, I > will > not contribute to this insanity any further. > > He obvously has too thick a skull to understand what is being said to > him, > and he doesn't have the patience (or grammatical skills) to try to > communicate in a calm and reasonable manner. > > Thus, we all keep going in circles. > > There are many things I'd like to try to explain to JCO, but he > refuses > to > listen. He takes Pentax's removal of the aperture simulator mechanism > personally. > > He doesn't understand economics as he likes to believe he does. > > He doesn't understand the business of staying alive in the camera > industry. > > He overestimates his value to Pentax, as well as the value of old > lenses > and > owners who don't buy new equipment. > > He doesn't realize he should be jumping for joy that Pentax > supports old > > lenses at all, even if not completely. No one else, aside from Nikon, > does > this. If a person owned a range of nice lenses in mounts such as > Olympus > OM, Yashica, Konica, Minolta MD, Canon FT/FD, Chinon, etc., they're > shit > out > of luck. Not so with Pentax. This is not something they have to do, > but > they do it anyway. He shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, > but he > does. > > I even took apart an ME Super last night just to see how the aperture > simulator worked. I don't think reintroducing it in a dSLR would > be as > easy > as JC would like to believe, but I won't be posting my (admittedly > unscientific) findings now. I'm done with this topic, and I hope the > rest > of the list sees the futility of trying to be reasonable and logical > with > JCO. > > Thanks for reading. Now back to your regularly-scheduled insanity. > > John Celio > > -- > > http://www.neovenator.com > > AIM: Neopifex > > "Hey, I'm an artist. I can do whatever I want and pretend I'm > making a > statement." > > > > -- > 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 DagT http://dag.foto.no Beware of internet links. You never know what is on the other side. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
