Alan wrote: 2) Pentax will suffer a slow and painful death because most Pentax long time users will abandon their good old K mount lenses for good (why stay with Pentax if they must re-invest all over again?). Make sense? :-)
REPLY: >From Pentax point of view people who are using 20+ year old lenses aren't Pentax >customers. They are either former Pentax customers or never been Pentax customers. >For all practical purposes, these "long time users" are really long time lost for >Pentax just like the Canon FD users are for Canon. Pentax have provided ample opportunities for old time users to upgrade to AF lenses with full compatibitity. Particularly the MZ-5/3 and the MZ-S have provided a path from manual focus to new technology. Pentax will certainly suffer a slow death if they cater for people who use 20+ year old lenses. Pål
