----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alan Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:19 AM Subject: Re: *ist D revisited
> I'm very inclined to agree with that. I suspect we could be seeing > the beginning of the end of Pre-A lenses. Fortunately for me, all my > lenses are A or newer. It is pity that Pentax made a decision for ourselves. Even I have mostly A, F and FA lenses, I still want to use my older (pre-A) ones with a digital body. I believe they could be a good combination with all-metal *ist D. >From another perspective, Pentax do not offer long-awaited features like IS and USM. Putting this together with the new "crap" KAF?-mount, it seems that Pentax may loose some of their customers (who are tired of waiting for camera THEY WANT and with features THEY WANT). Val