On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24/09/2015 4:38 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> P.J. Alling wrote: >> >>> We could hope, but, remember back before Hoya, Pentax's first DSLR >>> didn't have a convenient way to use Legacy (i.e. vanilla K and M mount), >>> lenses. They didn't institute the Green Button kludge until after the >>> shitstorm raised by disgruntled users more or less forced them to create >>> a software solution to a hardware issue. >> >> >> God, what a bunch of whiners we have here. It was 20 YEARS after the >> introduction of the "A" series lenses that comp ability with K and M >> lenses was compromised. Now some people are worrying that screw drive >> AF will disappear overnight. >> >> > > Mark, in 12 years, Pentax hasn't even managed to give it's users a decently > fast standard lens, forcing people into using old screw drive lenses if they > either need or want something faster than f/2.4, or want something that > doesn't feel like a piece of craptastic plastic. > > Given Pentax's recent history of making lenses, I can see dropping the screw > drive as a legitimate concern.
But why in _this_ body, a larger, much more expensive almost specialty item? To shave some build cost from it? Can't see that. Every single extant body has screwdrive AF. Even the 645Z has screwdrive AF. If anything could have stood a compatibility removal, it's that. -- -bmw -- 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.
