EXCUSE ME, arent you forgetting one little thingy? PENTAX CANT SELL MORE NEW REPLACEMENT LENSES if they support the K/Ms - thats why it was left out, not because nobody wanted it...You are naïve if you really believe they left it out because nobody really needed or wanted it. There is no other logical reason to leave this cheap part out other than to disable the functions of earlier lenses in order to boost sales of new ones to replace the disabled older ones.....jco
-----Original Message----- From: Adam Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 10:24 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: more green button wars Pentax brought the Green Button fix to satisfy a loud minority of users who were complaining. If it had been a majority, the DS would have gotten the hardware necessary instead of continuing with the software fix. Pentax isn't stupid. But they don't agree with you either. The people complaining about the lack of hardware are a minority amongst the old K/M users, who are already a minority amongst Pentax's market. If it was otherwise, we'd have the hardware, because it would be worth implementing to Pentax if a large minority or majority of the market required it. As it is, it's not worth it to Pentax to make the changes. -Adam J. C. O'Connell wrote: >Get out of here with this stuff. You think the pentax DS >did or didn't have the K/M hardware integrated because >of the population/market size of these lenses in the field ? What makes >you say that, there was so much backlash that pentax had to >come up with the green button band-aid right away >to stop the bleeding... >jco > >-----Original Message----- >From: Adam Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:57 PM >To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net >Subject: Re: more green button wars > > >Simple. Most of those truckloads of lenses are sitting at the back of a >closet collecting dust, and much of the ones in current use are 50mm's >on a school's K1000's. If there was a large market for K/M lens users >going digital, the DS would have had the hardware integrated. There's >just enough market (or at least complaining) for Pentax to keep with the >kludge they're currently using. > >Same reason why Nikon's dumped that compatibility on it's low/mid range >digitals. No real market for it. > >-Adam > > >Mishka wrote: > > > >>now that's just plain... strange comment. >> >>what exactly would be the reason preventing the owners of the >>aforementioned truckloads of K/M lenses looking to buy into Digital (or >>DigitaL)? >> >>mishka >> >> >> >>On 9/19/05, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>While the lenses do exist, the number of owners looking to buy into >>>Digital or modern film are a fairly small fraction of the current >>>market. Barely worth supporting, and not worth the extra engineering >>>required to integrate the extra functionality into the design >>>(Hardware is always harder to integrate than firmware, hence the >>>firmware fix). >>> >>>-Adam >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>
