If they buy Canon, Sony, (Konica/Minolta), or Nikon and wish to retain TTL metering manual focus lenses are not generally an issue. Since Canon and Nikon between them have about 90% of the DSLR market between, just statistically it's unlikely to be seen as a viable option. It's self fulfilling.
David Savage wrote: > My experience with the local photogs says otherwise. > > They buy the camera & kit lens & upgrade to the better non consumer glass. > > Old MF glass rarely enters into the purchasing decision matrix. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That's simply not true. Manual focus glass is very definitely popular >> amongst some groups of photogs, some of whom, like myself, were >> recently new to Pentax. MF lenses were the first things I bought both >> times I've bought into the Pentax system in the last 3 years. >> >> -Adam >> >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:41 AM, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > People new to the brand aren't interested in manual focus lenses no >> > matter how good they are. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > Dave. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:38 PM, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > > short term maybe, but when FF permiates, the aps >> > > lenses are simply not going to be very desireable >> > > when you have got a nice FF camera in you hand. >> > > >> > > Secondly, the other half of my statement was that >> > > the secondary market for FF lenses ( assuming good >> > > ones like smc K,M,A,F,FA etc will soar in value, >> > > especially the ones with features you cant buy anymore like the >> > > K,M,A ( precision manual focus ). >> > > jco >> > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
