Originally posted by Clavius I'm happy with my Pentax gear as well. And if Pentax were to change ways, or change mounts, I would not hesitate for a single moment to get that addional adapter to be able to continue using my Pentax lenses. Because even if a mount would change, those lenses would still be just as good as they were before.
That's what's happening at Sony. There are some very loyal A-mount users that have a stockpile of above excellent glass. Sony would be dumb not to provide an AF adapter for them. That's the intention of the adapter. Not twisted the other way round, as you implied with: "
It's a system with 4 native lenses (plus one soon to be released).
Who would buy a $2200 lens (+ $380 adapter) just to adapt it to a foreign mount? Since you counted all of them, who would buy a $13000 lens just to adapt it to a foreign mount?"
That's exactly my point. Being able to use an adapter is not the same as using native lenses. it might make your life easier if e.g. your system is abandoned, but it doesn't work
at all if it isn't, and you want to stick with it. It's not a panacea.
And it's terribly awkward to buy new expensive lenses in a foreign mount and adapt them to the system you're actually using. Yours is "the other way round".
P.S. From your posts I have a hard time imagining you happy with anything Pentax related.
Joe&Clavius, nobody is hating Sony.
I'm a Sony user myself (I forgot, smartphones are not cameras
)
I'm just not convinced by the Sony marketing material posted in this Pentaxforums.