Originally posted by VoiceOfReason
I do wonder with the plethora of cheap, old, not really all that good manual lenses people have and the cheap, newer AF, but still not all that good lenses people have also been posting that they have in the "how many FF lenses do you have thread while they are saying they are ready for FF, realistically, if you've got mainly crap lenses that you have because they are cheap are you going to spend 2k+ on an FF? Probably not.
I am very pleased with the sharpness displayed by my 1980's Pentax-M and Pentax-A lenses on my "new" K-30.
They were cheap "kit" lenses back then, they are old lenses today, but I would not call them "
not really all that good",
and I would
never use the term "crap" to describe them.
If I had the funds to buy a FF today, then hopefully I would also have the funds to buy a new lens or two also.
But, if I had to put off buying lenses for whatever reason, I would be comfortable using older lenses until I could get new ones.
And that is the point as far as I am concerned.
Because of the compatibility over time maintained by Pentax, they don't have to release a flood of new lenses to support this new camera.
The new camera will fit into an existing ecology of lenses, and will be practical until new high-quality lenses can be developed.