From: Boris Liberman
On 1/13/2011 7:43 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
> I was looking at the Pentax offerings on B&H while I was writing. The DA
> Limited lenses don't have an aperture ring. The FA Limited lenses do.
>
> Dream your own dreams, but don't tell that me mine are wrong.
I haven't been using aperture ring for several years now. Used it
recently on MX but that's a different story. Given that Pentax does not
seem to be going to introduce 24x36 lenses specifically, to expect an
aperture ring wouldn't make much sense. Unless you're very used to this
motion around the lens barrel changing the aperture, it is not /really/
that important.
It seems like all I have to do is express a desire for something and
there's automatically a big scrum piling on to tell me how wrong I am to
have that desire. It's not mandatory, so it's prohibited, and I'm not
even allowed to want it?
It's like "I don't want one, so you can't have one!"
Why not instead, "Oh yeah? Well, what I'd really like is to have ..."
It's my *dream*. It doesn't have to make sense to you or to anyone else.
What is *important* depends on who's defining important. What is
important to you may not be important to me ... and vice versa.
I'll point out again, I don't expect to ever see the lens actually
produced by Pentax - although I think they'd probably sell a boat load
if they did. That doesn't keep me from thinking how useful it could be
for me if I had one. Nor should it. Nor should anyone tell me I'm wrong
for thinking that.
And I understand Pentax is never going to offer a "full frame" 24x36
DSLR. I know. Ain't never gonna happen ...
Unless, of course, they decide there's demand enough that it IS in their
interest to offer one. And I expect the nay-sayers to be the first to
pontificate on how inevitable it was that Pentax should do so and how
marvelous an offering it actually is.
I don't know. Just seems like some people can't be happy unless they're
preventing anyone else from being happy; like there's not enough
happiness in the world to allow anyone but them to have any.
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