On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Dan Scott wrote: > What benefit does Pentax receive from backward compatibility? Is it > worth the loss of revenue that comes from always competing against its > own products�especially when those products always have an unbeatable > price advantage? Throw in having to compete against new offerings from > Canon, Nikon, Minolta, among others, and it's a formidable field!
Easy enough, you use the ZX-50/30/60 approach of only allowing use of A series or later lenses. Then you can still claim SOME backwards compatibility, but you still to sell lots of new lenses, like the shiny Limited lenses with their silly focal lenghts which I presume get converted to "normal" lengths on a smaller format? And that rbings us to another question in the FAQ, what makes limited lenses limited...
