A/F/FA lenses work properly. As I stated in an earlier post they could have at least supported
stop down metering with K lenses for a trivial possibly the same investment in software development
that they used to make them more or less unusable. This is a marketing decision not a technical
decision and in my opinion a bad one at that.
At 07:53 PM 6/7/03 -0400, you wrote:
you asserted in another message that it is at a trivial cost in manufacturing. i assert that even if it were, which i doubt, that being too far backwards compatible will prevent moving ahead to the next generation of K mount.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 19:30 Subject: Re: *ist D revisited
> Because it's not an either/or proposition. They could have satisfied old > users without sacrificing new buyers. There are some long-time Pentax > users who won't buy the DSLR if it isn't compatible with their old > lenses, but there aren't any new buyers who won't buy it because it *is* > compatible. And those new users would never buy significant numbers of > old pre-A lenses, so there would be no loss there.
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