Actually, the high price of lenses on ebay, even for K/M versions,
indicates that there is high demand for them. Why? Not because people
are putting them on their film cameras. Film is dead. ;) Because people
have just bought a *D, *DS, or *DL. That means that those people are
going to use them on a digital camera that has by some opinions,
rendered them useless. Why the discrepancy? I believe that the vast
majority of the people are content with the fix provided by Pentax,
otherwise the value of K/M lenses would be way below what we are seeing.
The market speaks for itself.
rg
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
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From: Pål Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sure, but most don't want old lenses.
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I don’t think AGE has anything to do with
lens purchases or utility . You buy for
image quality, focal lengths, speeds,
coating types, bulky or compactness, features like manual or auto
focus, metering capability, etc. You don’t
buy or not buy a lens based on what year it
was made. It may sound like nit picking but
its hard to tell if you are just stereotyping
all the KM lenses as all unwanted because they are
missing AF or something. Sometimes the features
they have are MORE important than some new
feature they don’t have like AF to the buyer so AGE
is not really ever the issue. Features and performance
are and why I disagree that PENTAX should totally
abandon key features of the KM lenses ( over 9 million of them
by your last post?) at this time....
JCO
