>From all accounts the GXR is a very good camera system, but I don't understand it (at all) and when you have something that is radically different than everything else out there, the burden falls upon the marketing department to make it clear. I look at the GXR modules on Amazon and it is not clear to me what mounts they work with. If I come to the GXR with K-mount lenses I want to put on it, which module do I use? Do I need an adapter? What do I lose and what can I keep (A metering, AF? ) No clue. When I look at "GXR mount A-12" for instance, I have no idea what "A-12" stands for. Description says "Universal mount handling Leica M lenses and more"? Really? "and more"? What might the "and more" include? It's $500 and it isn't a lens. And it isn't a body. Then I see A12 lenses like the 28mm f2.5 for $540. Do I need the "GXR mount A-12" in addition to this?
I have a very low tolerance for feeling stupid (funny, since I feel that way most of the time) and products like this make me feel like I'm back in DOS land and have to crack the manual for every little thing or I get a "syntax error". Not that I'm actually looking at the GXR, since I don't see how hit gains me a single thing over my K-5 ii. But if this is an example of how Ricoh is going to lead Pentax marketing to the Promised Land, let's just say I'm not holding my breath. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, John wrote: >> >> Every piece of Sony consumer electronics equipment I have ever owned >> failed & had to be replaced exactly one day after the warranty expired. > > Timex bought Sony??? > -- > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ > <*> <*> <*> > Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
