----- Original Message -----
From: "J. C. O'Connell"
Subject: RE: Camera engineering ( GREEN BUTTON has just officially DIED...)
What part do you not understand about this
summary? I will be glad to elucidate further
if needed...
Excellent summary. I like small words.
The only things I would nitpick are:
Is: "IS NOT anywhere even remotely
as automated"
not still automated?
And if it is even slightly automated, is it, by definition, automated?
It is certainly not manual, and it kinda has to be one or the other.
And, the tedious part.
I don't have a lot of experience with K/M lenses on the istD, I decided to
support my favourite camera company the old fashioned way instead, and buy
lenses that took advantage of things the camera is capable of that K/M
lenses don't do at all, but, in my limited experience, I found it to be
about as tedious as having to touch the shutter button every 20 seconds to
relight the meter.
Since I don't use screw mount bodies anymore, haven't since I was in high
school, this constant fiddling with buttons is something I have gotten used
to.
I figure I have four fingers on that side of the camera, at least one of
which is not doing anything at any given time.
I recall even my old SPII, I had to turn the meter back on after every
picture.
Do you find that to be tedious?
Moving on:
At some point in the thread, did you mention the part about falling out of
metering range with stop down metering?
That's my concern with it, though with the istD, anyway, it seems as though
as long as there is enough light that I can safely handhold the camera, the
metering will be in range.
It is a concern, though.
And, my final thoughts on the subject:
Anyway, in an ideal world, we would have full K/M support, but this is not
an ideal world, and full K/M lens support on a digital camera body is not
such a big deal.
It's one of those things that would be nice, but is not all that important
to most all of the Pentax DSLR users on the list, a group you are not a
member of.
YMMV (but really, you should try it, rather than just being ignorant and
argumentative) and while thats OK, what is not OK is your denigrating
attitude towards users who don't see it as something to get worked up about.
What we have been given in this regard, while not perfect (I never said it
was, BTW), does not turn the camera into the pile of scrap that you seem to
think it is.
There are other improvements I would like to see, any of which I would trade
off full K/M support for, if it came to it.
But, as you know from reading the thread, I don't much use K/M lenses on my
istD so the support for them is not important to me.
William Robb
