----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Gonzalez" Subject: Re: Old lenses and *ist D
> You're right, we'll just keep arguing here over what Pentax's real > motivation was and never know until Pentax decides to tell us, if ever. > Basically we'll never know. Personally, I don't care either. The camera is nice, though not perfect. I have plenty of lenses to use, and if I can't use a few of my K/M lenses, so what? I went through many years as a photographer with just a 50mm lens, and did some of my very best work with it. I still have a few (dozen) film cameras that I can use, if I want to, and I can use my older lenses on bodies that they are contemporaneous with. Life is far too short to worry about things of little importance. K/M lens compatability falls into that category. For me it became a "so what?" issue when I picked up the ist D. William Robb