There was a rather heated discussion about backward compatibility and
the crippled K mount which included a bit of invective on the K mount
replacing the m42 mount. Only a small part but it was there.
Paul Stenquist wrote:
I don't recall any conversation about the K-mount and how it affected
screw mount users. But it's not very important to me. I doubt if
anyone could get emotional about it after thirty years.
paul
On Sep 4, 2004, at 11:02 PM, Peter J. Alling wrote:
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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