Pentax and Nikon are in completely different situations regarding
product lineups and market share, so comparing them doesn't really make
a compelling case. Even so, Nikon limits legacy compatibly quite a bit
in their consumer models. Pentax does a gereat job of providing legacy
compatibility across their product line. It is great that they do that
and they souled continue to do so. But bringing back the old
non-crippled AF mount would be a poor decisions, IMO. But maybe they
will do it, just to make the few hundred people with substantial pre-A
lens collections happy.
On 9/17/2014 9:11 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
Having a huge legacy of past great lenses hasn't stopped Nikon for
selling lots of new glass. There's no reason to expect that Pentax
couldn't give better support to K and M lenses, including a new
implementation of the aperture simulator and not do the same. I'm not
saying that Ricoh would do such a thing just that it could. Abandoning
the past doesn't secure the future.
On 9/17/2014 8:54 PM, Mark C wrote:
I'd expect all A, F and FA lenses would work with a FF Pentax. That's
a lot of legacy glass. If they keep the
green-button-stop-down-metering feature, there is still compatibility
with even older glass.
I'd like to see Pentax put more effort into attracting new buyers who
will want new lenses and leveraging that to rebuild the product line.
Investing in the very small number of people who bought lenses
decades ago and don't want to upgrade is not a good business
strategy, especially when your current products support this market
segment better than most of your competitors.
Mark
On 9/17/2014 8:38 PM, JC OConnell wrote:
I really think ricoh/pentax would be wise if they had a design goal
of the first ff dslr to be compatible
with the greatest number of LEGACY K mount lenses as possible. FF
and APS-C . This is simple logic because they dont have a line of FF
lenses to sell yet. Anything less than that will be a failure in my
honest opinion.
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