Shel,
The answer is no. The mount accommodated all that and the aperture
simulator before. If you want to see a lens mount with all the contacts
and the aperture simulator just look at a ZX-5n. Take out the aperture
simulator and Power Zoom contacts you've got the lens mount on a
*ist-D/Ds put back the power Zoom contacts, (to power the in lens
focusing motor, and incidentally power zoom lenses), and you've got the
mount on the K10D.
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
>Strict definition? Is there a Pentax dictionary somewhere that defines
>what a K-mount lens is?
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>What a lot of people seem to be overlooking - or at least ignoring - in
>these threads is that the K-mount has evolved. It now allows for auto
>focus, passing information to the camera body, it makes it possible to
>record EXIF data, and it's going to allow the use of the new DA* lenses
>with hypersonic auto focus. Might it be possible that there's only so much
>"room" within the lens mount design that in order to have these new
>features, and the K/M lenses, the aperture simulator had to go?
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>While it would be nice if I could use my K/M lenses a little more
>conveniently, and I do want the aperture simulator to return, I'm happy to
>give it up if it means that there will be newer, more advanced lenses to
>use on newer, more advanced cameras. I don't want to keep looking back - I
>want to look forward to more interesting developments in lens and camera
>technology.
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>We're in a new age of photography - it's exciting and dynamic, and Pentax
>seems to be on the verge of a renaissance. I'd like to see it emerge fully
>from the past decade or so of being a photographic has-been and also-ran
>and move forward, and perhaps even set the pace, in this decade. It ain't
>1975 any more.
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>Shel
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>>[Original Message]
>>From: Cory Papenfuss
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>>>Death knell? Dude, it is far from dying.
>>>As a matter of fact, I'd say
>>>the k-mount is flourishing more than it
>>>has in 20 years. 5 or 6 *ist
>>>varieties (at least three distinct bodies)
>>>plus 3 new kXX[X]D bodies in
>>>the last couple of years that are selling
>>>well and have been well
>>>received is anything but a funeral procession.
>>>And don't forget to add
>>>in all the new lenses (some of actual high quality).
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>>When I say K-mount, I mean K-mount by the strict definition...
>>which includes the aperture simulator cam. That was one of the primary
>>initial technologies that constituted the K-mount in '75. The current
>>mount should be called the "crippled K-mount" as many have suggested.
>>And yes... the "crippled K-mount" is doing well.
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