----- Original Message ----- From: "Toralf Lund"
Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
I still want to take the "image" view on this, though (surely image is more important to photo companies than most others ;-)) The question is not (only) if people actually want to use these old lenses, but how the lens compatibility issue affects Pentax'es image, i.e. the way people look at Pentax as a brand, or more specifically, whether or not it affects their opinion of the company enough to have a real influence on their selection of brand.
Not having full compatability, but full usability with lenses 20 years and more old is better than the competition. Canon doesn't seem to have any image issues, and they dropped all support for the FD line less than 20 years ago, Minolta dropped support for the MD line some time ago, and Nikon has been kind of spotty regarding lens compatability since the late 70s.
William Robb
