Miserere wrote: >Boris, I'd say yes and no. I suppose we should take into account what >*might* happen 5 years from now, but what's more important to me is >what happens this Friday when I go shooting. If I need a DA lens for >my subjects, then I'll buy it and use it; it would seem silly to me >not to do so just because *maybe* in 5 years time that lens will >become unusable on the new bodies.
Personally, I don't think there's any chance that Pentax (top-end bodies, anyway) will lose screw-drive in 5 years. There's a significant number of FA* lenses like the 600/4.0, 250-600/5.6 and 300/2.8 out there. Not a lot, but a significant number. And their owners are long-time, money-spending Pentax users who Pentax is unlikely to want to piss off. Also, there are no SDM replacements for these lenses in sight at the moment. I think this is all hand-wringing over nothing. -- 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.
