Read my reply to William. Yes, I know, hell I use a Vivitar S1 35-85mm varifocal for gods sake, I'm making an illustration. It took a fairly long time for me to find the information on how to use K/M lenses in the manuals for the *ist-D and Ds and that was when I knew what to look for, discounting the paragraph that said they were unusable. The average new user who's told, "..yep, you can use any Pentax K mount lens with limitations..." trys it after only using the kit for a while will be initially clueless, maybe to the point they give up. You on the other hand read this list.
Paul Stenquist wrote: >I have found that my K lenses meter properly. I use my Vivitar Series >1 90/2.5 macro quite often. I also use my K 85/1.8 quite a bit. I >remain quite pleased with the way they function on the *istD. No >surprises for me. >Paul >On Oct 21, 2006, at 12:24 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > > >>No, but they might find one that they want to use, and that will be >>quiet a surprise, after they've been told about the unparalleled >>backward compatibility Pentax supports by the marketing department at >>the time they bought the camera. When I hear, to paraphrase a bit, "K >>and M lenses usable with some limitations." I think, of course >>there are >>some limitations, they can't autofocus. I don't think, these lenses >>won't meter properly and don't support any kind of exposure >>automation. >> >>William Robb wrote: >> >> >> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Kostas Kavoussanakis" >>>Subject: Re: The JCO survey >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Are you suggesting that you are using all the features of each of >>>>your >>>>cameras? If not, please don't isolate the particular artifact in >>>>your >>>>(non) quest for a cheaper body. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Are you suggesting that every DSLR buyer has a raft of K/M lenses >>>that >>>they want to use? >>>Or that K/M lenses can take advantage of every feature that a modeern >>>camera offers? >>>Give your head a shake, Kostas. >>> >>>William Robb >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>-- >>Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. >> >> --Albert Einstein >> >> >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> > > > > -- Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. --Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
