Precisely! It would be bordering on suicide for Pentax to abandon their compatibility to go digital. The only reason many people are holding out from switching brands is the hope that they wont have to replace all their glass. If Pentax were to let these people down, I bet most of them would be lost for ever. Pentax would also only have a small number of lenses for the new digital mount and would have an even bigger problem in that respect than Sigma have selling a mount which only supports a limited range of lenses. Sure this would change in time as more and more lenses were released, but until then the camera wouldn't sell well, and they could decide to pull the plug on the new mount if the lose too much money.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 24 September 2002 06:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Pentax digital slr (WAS: Re: SMC Pentax F* Zoom > 5,6/250-600) > > > > People seriously thought so because Pentax have officially > stated that > they intend to manufacture K-mount digital slr's. I'll still > think so until they state otherwise. > > At least it makes every sense for Pentax to product K-mount > DSLR. I really don't see what benefit Pentax would gain if > they dumped the K-mount. > > regards, > Alan Chan > >
