Re: Orphaned Power Zoom Lenses

[P. J. Alling]

Yes your are a lone voice crying in the wilderness, power zoom is 
probably the least missed functionality in any camera.

Mark Erickson wrote:
The list has been consumed with passionate debates about "green button 
wars" and camera engineering, nobody has mentioned a MAJOR lack of 
support for a key feature that Pentax pioneered!  What am I talking 
about?  Power Zoom, of course!
It was bad enough when Pentax released their new top-end MZ-S without 
supporting Image-Size Tracking, Zoom Clip, and Zoom Effect 
capabilities. Pentax did at least include Power Zoom contacts in the 
MZ-S so that the power zoom capability in certain FA and FA* zoom 
lenses didn't completely go to waste.
Unfortunately, Pentax has fully abandoned their many FA and FA* power 
zoom owners with the *ist-D and *ist-Ds.  Wouldn't it have been 
ridiculously easy to include power zoom contacts?
So now I have two FA* lenses with Power Zoom motors that may never be 
exercised again.  Am I the only voice crying in the wilderness, or 
does someone else out there miss Power Zoom?




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