Originally posted by mee Yes there is.. because that technology is in the past and it is staying there.
By the same reasoning you could defend the absence of any metering support and/or focus confirmation for manual lenses.
With this reasoning, you could even easily have the forthcoming FF model not support screw drive lenses. Why "
support technology of the past"?
Originally posted by mee It would be similar to ask Apple to give you a cassette tape player in the iPhone
This analogy does not work at all.
The more appropriate analogy would be Apple not supporting playing uncompressed audio files, i.e., only supporting the most modern lossy audio formats. The reason why this analogy is more appropriate is because it is easy and not intrusive to any users that have no interest in older technology to support older audio formats (just like adding an aperture coupler or better software support would be easy and non-intrusive), as opposed to do doing something entirely unreasonable (adding cassette playback to an iPhone).
Originally posted by mee Please let the past be the past. ... that is to say, I wouldn't get your hopes up over it.
Please read my posts more carefully. I explicitly said that I don't expect an aperture coupler to materialise. I'm not one of those people lobbying for one. I only said, the desire for an aperture coupler (or better software support) is 100% reasonable. I don't see why it should be ridiculed at all.
P.S.: While I'd be totally fine with the idea of an aperture coupler being dead and buried forever, I also think it would be very cool of Pentax to -- at some point in the future -- give people the option to spend some money to get one.
There could be a special edition of a flagship camera that would target those with a collection of manual lenses. I guess it would not be financially viable to do this, but if it were, it would be a great way for Ricoh to communicate that they value their existing customers and reward brand loyalty.
Last edited by Class A; 11-09-2015 at 09:46 PM.