> From: "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'd forgotten how nifty the LX is. It's smaller and lighter > > than I remembered, and yet feels very solid and well built. > > The finder is very bright, especially compared to the > > spotmatics. Compared to the K2 and Spot F I was fiddling > > with earlier in the day the shutter speed dial is much easier > > to manipulate. > > I have far from forgotten my LXs. I was awaiting this mystical > transformation that comes with digital camera ownership that makes you > forget film, but that hasn't happened. Whilst I enjoy using the *ist D, it > is nowhere near as good as the 'feel' of an LX. Maybe I love my slide film > too much? A great pity an LX-D was never launched! For that, I would have > sold my film cameras...
Nobody has yet released an "LX-D" kind of camera. At the rate things are going, the first company to make anything like that (old-fashion look and feel, digital guts) is going to be Cosina. I'm still lamenting the lack of anything like an "LX-F", although some folks have made reasonable arguments for the MZ-S trying to be such a camera. The LX was, unfortunately, unique for Pentax. It was pretty much unique entirely with that electro-mechanical shutter and moronic strap/grip system. DJE
