Well, I don't think it will happen for the reason I cited: Nikon has motivation to support the AI-S lenses mechanical couplings as they are still making and selling some AI-S lenses. Pentax has long since discontinued any non-electronic coupling manual lens manufacture and sales.
From a philosophical point of view of course it would be nice if they did, but I wouldn't count on it. It would probably be better technically if they went the whole route and dispense with the mechanical iris actuation in its entirety. It would be more consistent and more accurate to have an in-lens servo do the actuation and reduce the body couplings to a 100% electronic setup, call it KE-mount. K-mount lenses would work the same way that M42 lenses do now but without needing a mount adapter. I'm sure they've thought of this, just as Nikon has, and not done it for the same reasons. Godfrey On Oct 20, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > That is essentially my point about why I want to see one in the > mythical > K1D, but don't really care about one in the K10D. Without the GB hack, > I'd just ahppily use the histogram to meter like I did with my D50 (My > D50->K100D move happened for other reasons primarily, like the finder > and SR, the GB hack was a nice bonus). > >> I didn't say anything about what the prices of the parts to implement >> the cam follower were. Nikon's cameras that have this archaic bit in >> them pose an idea at what price level I would expect to see this kind >> of feature delivered. In the bygone days of film cameras, Nikon >> delivered cameras comparable in price to the Pentax cameras with the >> same bits for the same prices as Pentax, so there is some basis for >> this kind of expectation. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
