On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, William Robb wrote: > Some people want the machine to do all the work for them.
Damn skippy. Robocamera better do it all, otherwise its not much of a convienence. Look, maybe I'm just rehashing 4 year old arguments that no one right cares abotu anymore, I can acknowledge thate veryone else has probably moved on and accepted this "feature," but I'm not. I retain the right to live in the past, and as such I prefer to think that their new fangled digital camera is gonna do what I want it to do when I want it to do it, not require me to remember to flip this switch here when I need to this feature here, but only once in awhile when I'm using some particular lenses. I'm not a complete bastard about it, though. Fine, so in order for SR to work, you need to tell it the focal length. Makes sense to me. It can't do any automatic features with a M42 lens attached to it through an adapter. This I can accept. But I don't want to accept that its not smart enough to replicate a feature thats been on every one of the camera bodies since the mid '70s, including the MZ-S from which I think all the rest of this descends. Fine, eventually I'll have to crack one way or another, I suppose, and just give in. But I can assure you that I can hold on for as long as I need to and will be happy to buy one on the used market in a year or two rather than a brand new one for want of something as simple as not having to press the DoF preview to meter. -- http://www.infotainment.org <-> more fun than a poke in your eye. http://www.eighteenpercent.com <-> photography and portfolio. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
