Peter wrote: > You are mixing two contradictory arguments in your post: > > 1.) Pentax doesn't care how many of these bastard things they market so why > make them > compatible.
That was not what I said. Or meant to say. Making them comoatible don't make any difference for sales exept making the thing more expensive. > 2.) Pentax is making a statement that they plan to be around for a long > time and > support their lenses with new bodies, (but we'll cripple them so you can't > use some for no > particular reason except marketing). > > What I see is a marketing decision to sell lenses, if they don't sell any > of these bodies they won't sell new lenses so why build the body. I think you are way out of propotions. There simply aren't that many K and M lenses in use. Particularly not on a potential DSLR. Nobody makes DSLR's for 20+ year old lenses perhaps because it isn't such a good idea commercially. There also might be sound technical reasons for a total change of metering principle; the *ist D needs to be compatible with future lenses. Not lenses from more than 20 years back. Pål
