Orphaned Power Zoom Lenses

[Mark Erickson]

The list has been consumed with passionate debates about "green button wars" 
and camera engineering, nobody has mentioned a MAJOR lack of support for a 
key feature that Pentax pioneered!  What am I talking about?  Power Zoom, of 
course! 

It was bad enough when Pentax released their new top-end MZ-S without 
supporting Image-Size Tracking, Zoom Clip, and Zoom Effect capabilities. 
Pentax did at least include Power Zoom contacts in the MZ-S so that the 
power zoom capability in certain FA and FA* zoom lenses didn't completely go 
to waste. 

Unfortunately, Pentax has fully abandoned their many FA and FA* power zoom 
owners with the *ist-D and *ist-Ds.  Wouldn't it have been ridiculously easy 
to include power zoom contacts? 

So now I have two FA* lenses with Power Zoom motors that may never be 
exercised again.  Am I the only voice crying in the wilderness, or does 
someone else out there miss Power Zoom?