----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: K1D aperture simulator survey,part Deaux Now in Digest mode to save bandwidth.
> 1. They did leave FD bodies in production for a few years > ( most likely sales fell off so it wasn't economically feasable) In much the same way that demand for an aperture cam follower fell off to the point where it wasn't economically feasable. > 2. I have said this over and over again - CANON USERS GOT > A NEW AND IMPROVED MOUNT when EOS came out - THERE IS NO NEW AND > IMPROVED MOUNT on the current pentax DSLR bodies. You are an > Idiot if you cant understand this simple fundamental difference > Between what happened with Canon and what happened with pentax > DSLRS. Canon FL/FD users didn't get a new and improved mount. They got told that they had to buy an entire new camera/lens system when their present camera bodies wore out, whether or not the lenses they were using were still up to the task. As you said yourself, lenses last practically forever, and support for them is of utmost importance. John, it's about support. You said it yourself. If you don't believe that support is important to an entire family of lenses that were in production for 25 or so years and probably number in the 10s of millions, how can you claim it is important for a subset of lenses that was produced for 5 years, without people thinking you are a hypocrite. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
