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From: "AlunFoto"
Subject: Re: On FF and other "must have" features
Rob has a very salient point, though. To him the fence is a defence of
his investment in glass. That's valid for more people than him!
Well yes, this is my point as well. Do I want to sell the 4 dozen high
quality lenses that I've carefully chosen to best suit my needs?
No, I don't.
But, when the camera body lets those lenses down more often than not, the
maker of that camera needs to address the weakneses of what they are making.
Pentax is, at the moment, hobbling along on an AF system that is at least 7
years old, and which was originally seen in their low end film camera. All
the tweaks in the world can't get past the fact that everyone else has moved
3 or 4 generations beyond what they were doing in 2003, and Pentax is still
using essentially the same AF system.
It may have been good enough for a plastic toy film camera, but it isn't
good enough for a DSLR, and it certainly isn't good enough for a prosumer
SLR like the K7, and God help them if they try to foist off a 135 format
DSLR with SAFOX VIII, or worse still, if it's what they hang on the 645
digital.
They do that and the camera will die on the shelves as the competition pees
their pants laughing about it.
OTOH, if people around here had tripped the shutter button of their
entirely inadequate and hopelessly anachronistic Pentax as much as
they tap their keyboard to shout their discontent, they'd probably
have worn out their cameras and lenses already.
This is probably what I did to my 60-250.
William Robb
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