Yes I do know. There is nothing stopping them from designing and producing a DSLR that fully supports K/M lenses. Nothing except desire to do so. Like someone said before, this istD was a new design, not an old one modified to do digital. So if there is no room for the part now ( I don't see why there wouldn't be ) that is because they chose there to be no room for the part. JCO
-----Original Message----- From: Keith Whaley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: istDs - what a great camera! J. C. O'Connell wrote: > The capture has nothing to do with the lensmount. Huh? > There are no new lenses or lens features on > this camera. No, there are LESS features on this camera (the *ist-D or the -DS.) That's what we're 'discussing.' They don't accomodate the mechanical portion of the lens/body linkage, that operates the open aperture metering lever. > Why do you propose that it being a digital > camera prevented the K/M support when there is > nothing new going on with regard to the cameras > lens mount, just part of it is missing. Sorely > missing. Maybe it's "missing" because there's some interference somewhere in teh digital. Maybe they can't shoehorn that old style mechanical mechanism in the new body. Heck, I don't know. Do you? keith whaley [...]
