I feel DSLRs will become more and more mainstream as time goes by and film will become the unusual/niche/history. Once that happens somebody will build a K mount DSLR if Pentax wont. There are still new cameras being made today that use M42 and that is 25 years "obsolete"...Why? Because the lenses are still out there and are very inexpensive. I wouldnt even be suprised if a M42 DSLR turns up eventually.... I think the digital capture thingy will spread far and wide once the costs come down. I dont think it will be a very limited scope thing like you are suggesting.. Maybe pentax will go that way like they did with M42, but somebody else can pick up the slack if they do.
JCO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.C. O'Connell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: *istD teleconvertor idea ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: *istD teleconvertor idea > I think the opposite might happen. If the K/M lenses begin > to sell real cheap on the used market due to Pentax's > stupid failure to support, SOMEONE ELSE will make a K > mount DSLR, like sigma, ricoh or somebody.... > Those lenses are too plentiful and high quality to > go wasted.... I don't know if camera makers actually profit enough from camera bodies to support a lens line. When I was selling, the idea was to sell them a body as inexpenively as possible, then sell them some lenses that actually made money for everyone up the food chain. I kinda hate to break it to you, but the K mount is probably not going to make the transition to digital any further than what we now have. In an ideal world, I would be market testing Pentax DSLRs, with an upscale one with full K mount compatability just around the corner. I don't think this will be the case. I believe if they were going to take the K mount forward, they would have included it in the ist D. The idea of getting as many people to buy the camera When I came to this conclusion, it became a lot easier to accept the camera. Since I don't think there will ever be a full K mount compatable digital, the decision then was to either start building another system from another manufacturer, begrudgingly selling Pentax along the way if needed, or buying the ist and incorporating it into what I have that it works with, and perhaps buying another lens or two. Admitedly, I have enough A type lenses to keep me happy, and the K lenses do work just fine for picture taking, as long as one is not in a terrible hurry. I bought Pentax for the lenses. I would be happier if the ist was full K compatable, but I am not willing to give up Pentax lenses because it isn't. William Robb
