on 16.10.02 21:47, Dan Scott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> While I hope you are right, I think you just gave the reason _we_ want > Pentax to do a k mount dSLR‹if I was Pentax I'm not sure I'd feel the > same way. > > Pentax makes good cameras and good glass‹in the normal course of events > people who value that will continue to buy from them. But Pentax only > puts bread and butter on the table _today_ when people are buying > _current_ retail product. > > What benefit does Pentax receive from backward compatibility? Is it > worth the loss of revenue that comes from always competing against its > own products‹especially when those products always have an unbeatable > price advantage? Throw in having to compete against new offerings from > Canon, Nikon, Minolta, among others, and it's a formidable field! What's more, backwards compatibility would be a good reason for manual focus folks to go AF if they couldn't decide earlier (anyone interested in such a giant jump-into-digital from manual? ;-) > Dan Scott (btw, nice to have a civil, non-whiney exchange to participate > in!) Yes, especially that it happens rarely here... -- Best Regards Sylwek
