I agree with Stan. The whole point of the 645D and 645Z was to provide legacy Pentax 645 customers with something to do with their existing lens investment. This is one of the reasons that I *love* the Pentax philosophy: To provide (virtually always) backwards compatiblility. NO other camera company has done that to the extent that Pentax has. I'm hopeful that this does not change under Ricoh.
Some would argue that Pentax would be in a better place, financially/marketwise if they HAD broken with the past and redesigned their lens mount. That can't be proven or disproven because we don't have an alternate universe in which Pentax did so to compare with where we are today. Or maybe their is, but the laws of physics prevent us from communicating with it. On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > I have to disagree with both of you on this point. The 645D and 645Z would > have had virtually no market as a camera body on its own. It takes lenses to > complement the body to create a camera “system.” Without screw-drive focusing > (and thus compatibility with two handfuls of prime and zoom FA-series > lenses), a buyer would have had only 1 or 2 available lenses, and those at a > cost that would have doubled the cost of the 645 digital camera system. Yeah > sure, there are at least as many 645 A-series lenses out there, but lenses > that are manual-focus only are so last century! And only for the young with > good vision. And those aforementioned youngsters with good vision are less > likely to have the financial capacity for a digital 645 camera system. > Without backward compatibility the Pentax 645 digital bodies would not have > happened. > > stan > >> On Sep 24, 2015, at 10:53 PM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> >> wrote: >> >> Bruce Walker wrote: >> >>> Even the 645Z has screwdrive AF. If anything could have stood a >>> compatibility removal, it's that. >> >> Yep. >> >> -- >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >> www.robertstech.com >> > > -- > 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. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
