I'd like to agree with you but as a software engineer I spend a lot of time working with things and making things that were incompatible because marketing thought they should be that way.
At 07:20 PM 6/9/03 +0200, you wrote:
Hi Peter,
on 09 Jun 03 you wrote in pentax.list:
>You don't get the point these mounts don't have to be incompatible.
You are right, but you didn't got my point, too: I only want to say that there is no reason to think, that this new mount will be on all next Pentax (D)SLRs. We simply don't know. I'm also dissappointed about this mount and a little bit angry about the poor Pentax communication. But I don't see any reason to be as pesimistic and fatalistic as many others around here.
>There are no new features that require these changes. These cameras >have been purposely built to be incompatible, obviously so.
Right. OTOH - there might be technical reasons that we don't know. Pal has written some interesting point concerning the communication between the lens and the mount. It seems, that the digital data trasfer via the mount contacts is much easier and more exact than using the mechanical coupling.
Cheers, Heiko
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