PENTAX DSLR buyers own/buy 99% zoom lenses? Where do you get that information from? I dont believe that one bit. Zooms have too many limitations for certain things to have reached that level of market share or even close to that even today...
As far as desirability, if you dont want or need AF for the type of photography you do and prefer to use MF, then virtually all of the K/M lenses are better and more desirable than F/FA in that regard. Sorry but too many loopholes in your statements to be considered seriously.. JCO -----Original Message----- From: Pål Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) JCO wrote: > See my last post. NOBODY chooses, uses, or buys > lenses based on purely age. It might sound > like nit picking but its not if some of the > older lenses have features you want and can > no longer get. It that case you arent buying > it because its OLD, you buying it because of > WHAT IT IS, not how old it is. There is a major > distiction there. I point it out because I am > beginning to sense that there are a lot of > people who are incorrecting assuming that the > K/M series are just OLDER less featured lenses > that can all be replaced with newer lenses > with all the exact same features as the KM > lenses but are unquestionably better because > of the new features added. that is not the case. > there were many great KM lenses that have not been > offered in later series mounts with similar specs and feautures. Most > notable is the smooth manual focusing feature but there's a lot more > to it than that... Again you forget that 99% buys zoom lenses and frankly, K and M zoom lenses really doesn't cut it today. You also forget that the desirable K and M lenses are precious few. 50% of all K and M lenses are probably 50mm lenses coming with the camera bodies. I guess 50% of the A lenses is the 50/2 lens and the majority of the rest are the cheap 28-80 mm lens nobody wants anyway. Pål
