You can say that until they take the manual coupling out of the camera
bodies. Hum, what other manual coupling is missing from the new camera
bodies...
There's no green button kludge to fix this one.
On 6/16/2016 3:53 PM, Bill wrote:
On 6/16/2016 1:41 PM, Zos Xavius wrote:
I don't see why anyone wouldn't just buy the HD 55-300 instead. Its
slightly longer but is also faster.
I suspect what we are going to see is a switch over to this new KAF4
mount on all future bodies, and when the last of the cameras has been
replaced, the KAF3 mount lenses will be retired.
This can still fit into the tradition of Pentax backwards
compatibility, they just need to leave the mechanical coupling on the
cameras so they can still use older lenses.
The complaints about this being an end to Pentax's tradition of
backwards compatibility are baseless. Backwards compatibility has
always been about new bodies using older lenses, not about new lenses
being usable on older bodies. Were the latter the case, Pentax broke
the mold when the original K mount came out because the new lenses
weren't usable on screw mount bodies.
bill
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