Ricoh claims that the aperture mechanism used in the M/K series is not accurate. My experience with green button stop down metering tells me that there might be something to that given the liberal amounts of EV compensation I end up using with various lenses. Oddly wide open meters fine with the green button. Hmmmm.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Yes, attracting new buyers is critical. The other day I was in Best > Buy picking up a USB cable or some such and walked through their > camera display. I found myself thinking how everything in there looked > the same and that the new K-S1 would really stand out. The old farts > that populate the PDML might not like it, but that's beside the point > in the wider world. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > 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.
