reason why backward compatibility is important as well, see any of Mark Roberts excellent
posts in this and other *ist-D related threads.
To respond to your supposed point.
They better sell all of the *ist-D's they make or they will never make another. Pentax is
becoming a marketing company. With all that implies.
You are mixing two contradictory arguments in your post:
1.) Pentax doesn't care how many of these bastard things they market so why make them
compatible.
2.) Pentax is making a statement that they plan to be around for a long time and
support their lenses with new bodies, (but we'll cripple them so you can't use some for no
particular reason except marketing).
What I see is a marketing decision to sell lenses, if they don't sell any of these bodies they won't sell new lenses so why build the body.
At 05:52 PM 6/11/03 +0200, you wrote:
Peter wrote:
> If it doesn't sell for a fairytail amount then who'll buy it?
I don't think it is intended to sell. I don't think anyone are into DSLR to make money in the short term. They release the *ist D to signalize that they are determined to still be a contender in slr's that take 35mm system lenses. They are just saying "hey, we will continue to make slr's; digital or not".
If the users who sits on old K-mount lenses fails to buy it it makes no real difference. They are far to few and Pentax must anyway try to reach new customers and they won't do that by making compatibilities that are expensive and a non-issue for such users.
It may be sad but there really isn't much point from a commercial point of view to make compatibility with more than 20 year old lenses. I wish they did, but I have no problems understanding why they don't.
Pål
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