That's just silly. Allowing full use of aperture rings on legacy lenses
appeals to most everyone. Just look at Fuji, Sure those designs are fly
by wire but I've never read a review that said; "I wish Fuji would
introduce a lens without an aperture ring". Lots of us miss the
aperture ring, at least on shorter focal lengths. Reaching the aperture
ring on long lenses with that control near the camera body can be a
PITA, when shooting hand held, but on anything up to about 200mm the
aperture ring on the lens body is a better solution. Change the
aperture with you left hand, change shutter with thumb, forefinger
shutter release. It's such a natural way or working.
On 9/17/2014 9:14 PM, Mark C wrote:
They will never have the margins that they need to reintroduce lenses
like they used to have if they bog down new offering with
compatibility features that appeal to an extremely small market share.
On 9/17/2014 8:57 PM, JC OConnell wrote:
yes, but those decades old lenses are better than the zero lenses
they offer now of the same formula.
On 9/17/2014 8:54 PM, Mark C wrote:
I'd expect all A, F and FA lenses would work with a FF Pentax.
That's a lot of legacy glass. If they keep the
green-button-stop-down-metering feature, there is still
compatibility with even older glass.
I'd like to see Pentax put more effort into attracting new buyers
who will want new lenses and leveraging that to rebuild the product
line. Investing in the very small number of people who bought lenses
decades ago and don't want to upgrade is not a good business
strategy, especially when your current products support this market
segment better than most of your competitors.
Mark
On 9/17/2014 8:38 PM, JC OConnell wrote:
I really think ricoh/pentax would be wise if they had a design goal
of the first ff dslr to be compatible
with the greatest number of LEGACY K mount lenses as possible. FF
and APS-C . This is simple logic because they dont have a line of
FF lenses to sell yet. Anything less than that will be a failure
in my honest opinion.
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