P.J. Alling wrote: >On 3/10/2015 3:38 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> 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! >> >More like the general lack of support for "older" cameras in general. >Hey it's a third world problem too, Pentax sells big in China if you can >believe the interviews from DB Review and Imaging Resource.
Do you think these older cameras constitute a significant (or even detectable) percentage of the cameras in use in China? The growth of sales in China may be the *reason* they aren't concerned about the lack of backwards compatibility (which is still only speculation at this point) with this lens. -- 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.
