Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! Boz, perhaps there is a minor glimpse of hope here. Could it be that for K and M lenses the new mount would work, but it wouldn't allow open aperture metering? But wait, I am afraid I am wrong, because it would mean that mechanical aperture coupling would have to be different in order for

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread Arnold Stark
Not so fast! I do not see, why K or M lenses should not work with future Pentax SLRs. All I see is that FAJ lenses won't be usable on pre-A-series cameras. However, that itself is a piece of sh*t. Well, I would not want to own such low-end zooms anyway. Arnold

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread Pål Jensen
Boz wrote: So, let me be the first one to pronounce the death of the K-mount compatibility. :-((( Pentax has just rendered all K- and M-series lenses obsolete. Long live the crippled K-af mount!!! :-((( But the DSLR might feature support for K and M lenses, you say... Yes it might,

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread Alin Flaider
Boz wrote: pbd What a slip by Pentax USA! This manual probably should have been pbd released after the new top-of-the-line piece-of-sh*t comes out, after we pbd find out that it doesn't support the older lenses. Well, there are two possibilities: - either these are the lenses to be

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread Pål Jensen
I wrote: They may have bearing on the general shape of things when it comes to Pentax K-mount system. It is supposed to be: They may NOT have any. Pål

Re: Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread pentax
Hi Arnold, Not so fast! I do not see, why K or M lenses should not work with future Pentax SLRs. No technical reason, I grant you that. But if they made the marketing decision to leave out aperture rings away on some lenses now, they will leave them out on some more soon, and then they

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread Rfsindg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS: I HOPE I AM WRONG!!! Typical 3rd party lens junk. I've a used SF-1 that came with an autofocus Tokina. Only after purchase did I realize that the lens had no aperture ring! Maybe FAJ stands for FA Junk lens. Regards, Bob S.

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread Sylwester Pietrzyk
on 11.02.03 13:12, Pål Jensen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the extent these lenses exist at all and not a printing error, they are obviously ultra cheap basement level lenses not meant for those who sit on large lens inventories. Unfortunately, the competition has cheapened out and removed

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread Artur Ledóchowski
- Original Message - From: Alin Flaider [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses) - or these lenses are MZ-60 dedicated and intended to further drop the price of the entry level slr kit. I'm pretty sure this is the case. The lenses seem

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! KT Minolta has already been selling the cameras of the similar concept Alpha KT Sweet II, Canon EOS Kiss III L and Pentax MZ-L. All these cameras are KT competitively priced yet with various features and automations. Thank you very much bg. Now my ZX-L (same as MZ-L or MZ-6) is an entry

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread Carlos Royo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS: I HOPE I AM WRONG!!! Typical 3rd party lens junk. I've a used SF-1 that came with an autofocus Tokina. Only after purchase did I realize that the lens had no aperture ring! Maybe FAJ stands for FA Junk lens. Some years

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread KT Takeshita
On 03.2.11 0:10 PM, Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! KT Minolta has already been selling the cameras of the similar concept Alpha KT Sweet II, Canon EOS Kiss III L and Pentax MZ-L. All these cameras are KT competitively priced yet with various features and automations. Thank

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread Bruce Rubenstein
... and have it function as the shutter too. Just like my Kodak Fiesta. BR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They can do it with 2, though the bokeh isn't the best. William Robb

Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses)

2003-02-11 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Bruce Rubenstein Subject: Re: K and M lenses are now obsolete!!! (was: FAJ lenses) ... and have it function as the shutter too. Just like my Kodak Fiesta. I was thinking the Canon Sure Shot.. William Robb