I told you Bob :-)
Dave On 11/25/06, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NOT QUITE - Pentax themselves are touting how their NEW > DSLR cameras can use MILLIONS of old PK lenses. Its really > moronic or shady IMHO. Its like they want to sell new bodies > by lying about the old lenses, and they want to sell new lenses > by disabling the older ones at the same time. All over a missing $5 > assembly. > ($50 retail). > > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Bob Shell > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 11:03 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Thread hijacking, etc. > > > I've followed all of this discussion for some time now. > > One person thinks Pentax should implement a feature to make it easy > to use old lenses with full compatibility. That would make sense if > Pentax was in the business of selling used lenses. Since they are in > the business of selling new lenses, planned obsolescence of features > used on old lenses is a very sound business decision. This insures > that they will continue to sell new lenses, at least until enough > time has passed to obsolete them all with something newer. > > Bob > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
