PS NO MORE PERSONAL ATTACKS- stick with the subject matter
please ("pompous"??). They are unnecessary and distracting
the attention away from what needs attention, the subject matter.
I think its pretty inconsiderate of you to start off a post
that way, it taints anything you might have to say that follows
in my opinion regardless of who you are replying to..
jco-----Original Message----- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:37 AM To: Pentax Discuss Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) ...Not to mention the cost > of losing your customer care reputation > forever too...So bottom line is there isnt > any way to accurately measure the cost of screwing > pentax system owners without cause even if its > unintentional due to plain outright stupidity at the > top of the company, its too complex and > with too many variables and total unknowns.. > In other words, its risky "business". > Strong words, and perhaps wrong ones, my pompous compatriot. When I bought my istD, I had a pretty decent lens line, mostly K and M, a few A and a couple of AF lenses. And I felt kinda choked that the K/M lenses didn't have metering at all (I bought before it was an option with the software update). What I found was that most of my old lenses just didn't work for me anymore because of the change in crop factor. As an example, I hate the 28mm range on 35mm, it just doesn't do anything for me, and it is a lens I can count on two fingers the number of times it was the right focal length for me, but I really like a standard lens' field of view. Guess what......the 28mm focal length works really well on the digital (being very close to a standard lens), and I ended up buying a good quility lens in that range (31mm). I didn't really like the 77 on 35mm, even though it is as fine a lens as one is likely to get, but I love it on the digital. I could continue in this vein, but I don't think I need to. My present lens kit for the digital contains exactly two lenses that I owned prior to buying the digital, one of which, my much loved A20/2.8 will almost never see the light of day, since it has a similar field of view as a 28mm has on full frame 35mm.... It wouldn't have mattered if there was full compatability or not, the old lenses just didn't work for my photography anymore, the focal lengths were wrong. This isn't taking into account at all the zoom lens contingent, which are legion. I don't know my history all that well, but I don't think there are all that many K/M zoom lenses out there, and even if they are, I expect newer lens designs are better, and it seems to me that most users these days are wanting zoom lenses, and will most likely be wanting something with autofocus. As a business decision for Pentax, K/M non support is probably not a bad one, they sold me another half dozen new lenses. I may not be a typical user , but I suspect I am not all that atypical either. YMMV William Robb
