The new glass, like the new cameras arent as good as the old ones in some ways. I prefer manual focus. They havent made any lenses with as good manual focus feel as the K/M since the K/M (20 years?). Dont blame me, blame Pentax.
Secondly, if you had a dozen perfectly working nice K/M lenses how "happy" would you be that they cant do AE or TTL metering anymore for no good reason? They are basic "K" mount. To not support the most basic of K functions is absurd... Many people have mentioned just using a hand held meter intead of TTL. That will work a lot of the time, but not with varible aperture zooms, and macro will also get tricky because of light loss at high mags. Ditto for filters and extension tubes and such... JCO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.C. O'Connell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fantastic *ist-D and Lenses On 9 Oct 2003 at 22:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pentax has produced a fantastic digital camera, and at $1500 ($1700 some places) > US, is priced about right. I don't like all this whining on the list re non-A > lenses. If you haven't bought a new lens since 1981, you are not keeping Pentax > in business anyway. No other company has campatibility back to the mid-1980s > like Pentax. And the *ist-D is very competitive with any Canon SLR right now. So everyone whining hasn't spent good money on new Pentax glass recently? Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
