WILLIAM I strongly suggest you go back and read the entire thread from the very beginning because we have already discussed this (and many other apsects of the matter) in great detail and this is not a compatabily issue with K/M lenses this is a support issue which is totally different. if the open aperture metering and AE functions of these lenses are not supported by pentax then they are not "fully usable" as designed because there are times when you need the AE and times where stop down metering wont work. So you are not correct in saying that.
The reason you need to read the ENTIRE thread first is its very long and detailed thread and its not fair for you to expect us to retread evertything all over again just for you. some of these things were already discussed several times as a matter a fact so its more critical than ever that you read ENTIRE thread first... JCO -----Original Message----- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:36 AM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) ----- 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
