Like computers, it's pretty hard to predict what may be antiquated in a few years. I haven't seen a floppy drive in years. I bought my first screw-mount lenses in the late 60's, confident that they would be around a long time. Then Pentax went to bayonet. I switched to Nikon, figuring at least they would keep the same mount. They didn't. Gaa! I fortunately didn't switch to Miranda, Konica, or Minolta.
My concern about 4/3 is that it seems that only Olympus is currently sticking with it, but I suspect that they will soon go to m4/3 completely. WordStar dominated word processing in 1984, so that's what I bought. Gaa! Used it with a CPM card in my Apple IIe. Gaa! Switched to a PC and WordPerfect, the dominant word processor in the late 1980's. Gaa! Nothing is sacred. Evolution happens. Jeffery On Nov 1, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Dario Bonazza wrote: > >> Boris Liberman wrote: >> >>> There is something that bothers me slightly. >> >> The future is a crystal ball with a lot of fog and little if anything to be >> seen. I don't think Pentax knows the future, including their future moves >> beyond the next year, hence worrying now fo possible choices five years from >> now makes little sense. Use your current gear as long as it fits and move >> away if/when it can no longer suit your needs. > > Being concerned about possible choices five years from now actually > makes a great deal of sense for someone getting into a camera system > and looking at potentially spending several thousand dollars over the > course of those years. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
