man, I have to stop working on posts while doing other stuff. Pay no attention to it.
I'll try to clean it up and repost later.
Doug
where's my medication?
At 1:51 PM -04007/31/01, Doug Brewer wrote, or at least typed:
>Bill,
>
>Well, they just stopped making the LX. You can probably still find one new, if that's
>what you want. I'm sure Peter would do his best to hook you up.
>
>Sitting around whining that Pentax doesn't make a high quality, sparsely featured
>body just doesn't hold water, because they did just that for the last twenty years,
>and =nobody bought them for the last five years=. Now they've discontinued it,
>because =nobody bought it.=
>
>Oh, sure, Shel bought one, and I've seen a couple reports here on the list of people
>who wanted to buy one, but not even Pentax is going to keep a twenty year old body in
>production on the off chance that they might sell three or four a year.
>
>Look at it this way. If you had an MZ-S, you could just use center-weighted metering
>with it and ignore the other methods. Where is the spot meter on my LX?
>
>I guess I must have unusually strong powers of concentration, because I have not yet
>had a viewfinder keep me from getting a photo. (Oh, shit! It's Sasquatch! Oh, and
>I'm distracted by the presence of an over/under graph. =Damn= this viewfinder!)
>
>I just remembered my LX has a self-timer. I've never used it. By golly, that LX is an
>over-featured tribute to the Gods of Marketing. No real photographer would ever use
>such an abomination. I may have to sell mine. Since I know you and Shel use the
>self-timer on every single photo you take with yours, perhaps you'd like to make me
>an offer. I'm just kidding, of course; I'm keeping mine. I
>
>Sorry, but the 35mm game is dominated by people who a.) actually buy new cameras and
>b.) want more than what the LX offers. That this dominance is good or bad is
>irrelevant; it just =is= and no amount of whining is going to change it, unless that
>whining is accompanied by significant orders for brand new LX bodies. Define
>significant as "any number large enough to cause Pentax to put the LX back into
>production."
>
>Doug
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Douglas Forrest Brewer
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