Let's not start this again, we beat this to death weeks maybe months ago...
Paul Stenquist wrote:
But the k-mount was a crippled mount for screw mount lenses. No open aperture metering. It was more severely limiting by far than the supposedly "crippled" *istD mount is for M and K lenses.
Paul
On Sep 4, 2004, at 9:09 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
But Paul, there was always that little adapter that allowed screw mount lenses to be used on the K bodies. Surely Pentax could have made that available with an earlier switch to bayonet mounted lenses. They could have been loyal to current users and met the competition head on.
Shel
[Original Message] From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just imagine if Pentax had made a bayonet mount Spotmatic in, like 1968, and concentrated on making an innovative pro-level body back then, instead of coasting the way they did...
True Frank, but there were two sides to that story. Those of us who were using screwmount in the seventies were none too happy to see Pentax obsolete our lenses. I think the company was torn between being loyal to their user body and meeting the competition.
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