P.J. Alling wrote: >The new collapsible 18-50mm kin lens. > >I keep looking at that lens thinking it's not much bigger than the 43mm >limited, and it would make a great compact walking around lens on a K-5II. > >Here's an interesting question, the collapsible Kit lens locks the K-S2 >when the lens hasn't been opened to taking position, (firmware driven I >expect), how far back will a firmware fix be supplied? K10D/20D pretty >much not, they didn't add a fix for the 1.4x multiplier, but the K-5IIs >is still current, (at least as far as Ricoh Imaging USA is concerned), >will they even bother to release a firmware update for that camera? > >It's really annoying for a company that prides itself on it's product's >backward compatibility to not upgrade still viable product's firmware. >You'd think that it's just marketing hype.
Wow. Talk about first world problems. So we're speculating that owners of older Pentax cameras *might* be able to mistakenly take a photo without (this particular one) lens being extended? Oh woe is me! -- 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.
