Well, I love the aperture ring and have only 3 Pentax lenses that don't
have one and quite a few that do. So I stand with you on that point. But
I don't agree with your overall argument.
When you say "Allowing full use of aperture rings on legacy lenses
appeals to most everyone." I think of that Wikipedia notation: "Citation
Needed." Do 20 somethings desire an aperture ring? I thought they wanted
touch screen controls. While I like aperture rings not everyone does and
I can't assume that my personal preferences are the norm. And while I
like aperture rings, the dual wheel aperture / shutter control in the K3
is very muck like the dual wheel control of the Pz-1p. No aperture ing
required. And the Pa-1p is a mid 1990's camera.
I'll be interested to see where this debate goes - I am leaving for a
work trip in the morning and won't be back till late Friday night. Will
be checking in on the debate when I return.
Mark
On 9/17/2014 9:22 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
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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