P.J.,
I don't want to get into a fight about this. I won't consider Pentax
the KBC (King of Backwards Compatibility) until they uncripple their
mount (either physically or through software). They could do it but,
like Seinfeld, choose not to. When companies act this way it pisses me
off.
I've been told that it's because Pentax doesn't want me using my M
mount glass, they want me to buy new lenses. I would be fine with this
statement (I do understand good business practice) if we had a
thorough DA lens line up, but I own a few non-A mount lenses that
Pentax doesn't make in DA mount, and I have to use them with the green
button or wide open.
Just *my* opinion, mind you; I'm not trying to convince anyone.
Cheers,
—M.
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On 8 September 2012 20:55, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/7/2012 3:07 PM, Miserere wrote:
>>
>> On 7 September 2012 14:13, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 9/7/2012 9:00 PM, Miserere wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Boris,
>>>>
>>>> It would be for a mirrorless camera, so it wouldn't be a retrofocus
>>>> design (thus the rear element protruding into the "mirror" box.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> —M.
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh, I don't expect Pentax a.k.a. king of backward compatibility to
>>> produce
>>> K-01-only lens. That is something that can be imagined, but can probably
>>> not
>>> be imagined to come true, you know.
>>
>> I'd say Pentax is the *Queen* of compatibility; Nikon is the King. But
>> yes, most things related to Pentax are hard to imagine, even if they
>> do actually happen.
>
>
> You forget that Nikon built an entire series of lenses that would cause
> damage to either the lens, camera or both it mounted on the wrong series
> camera body. The only time Pentax even came close to that was back in the
> screw mount era, (pre-Spotmatic), and even then it was only one lens IIRC.
> Sure the aperture simulator is gone but at least no Pentax produced K mount
> lens will damage any Pentax manufactured K mount body or vice versa.
>
>
>>
>> —M.
>>
>> \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com
>>
>> http://EnticingTheLight.com
>> A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment
>>
>
>
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> lengthly search.
>
>
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