----- Original Message ----- From: "Tanya Mayer Photography" Subject: Re: Pentax's dSLR future?
> Rob (and others have mentioned it also) said "The transition to EOS mount > was not executed in a clandestine > manner." > > Just wondering what this means? Maybe, it was "before my time", but I was > just curious about it all... Canon and Minolta both made complete breaks from their manual focus lens mounts when they went to autofocus cameras. Canon survived quite nicely, and the EOS mount is serving them very well, and I expect will continue to do that. I think Minolta didn't do so well, as they were quickly eclipsed by Canon, even though they were first off the mark with an auto focus camera system. Their recent aquisition by Konica makes me think they haven't been doing so well for quite a while. Canon came along and pretty much clobbered everyone with the EOS system, but there was a lot of anger over the rapid loss of support for the FD mount at the time. Pentax showed that they were no longer commited to K and M lens compatability prior to the release of the ist D. While I am not happy about it, I think one has to accept reality. I registered my displeasure with Pentax over this, both on list and directly to the company, and stopped whinging about it. William Robb
