I want a small, black camera with the following characteristics:
Metal frame, top, and bottom.
Interchangable viewfinder system.
CW IDM metering, Spot metering (Matrix would be nice
Shutter speed: minutes to 1/2000 sec min, plus B
DOF preview
Mirror lock up
Modes: Aperture Priority, Shutter priority
Separate, detachable motor drive, AF drive.
ISO 16-6400
Auto bracketing, 1/3 stops (with motor drive attached)
This is not a Minolta or Canon. This sounds like an LX with spot metering
and optional AF to me. I harbor no illusions that it will ever exist.
Regards,
Bob...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: A butchered (AKA "modern") LX
> You don't want an LX. Why not try a Minolta or Canon?
> I'm sure they would have something more in line with
> your way of thinking. Is the MZ-S good enough for you,
> or do you want to butcher that too?
>
> I'm sorry, but:
> LX+AF+Spotmeter=I don't know, but it certainly
> wouldn't be an LX. They are well known as an MF
> camera.
> And once they start putting AF on cameras, the
> manufacturers suddenly think, hey what do we need
> interchangeable focussing screens for? We can just put
> a plain screen on, nobody will want to manual focus,
> our AF is so responsive and accurate. And then: who
> uses DOF preview or MLU anymore? They are so last
> century. And then, suddenly, you don't have an LX
> anymore, you have just an ornery (sic) AF camera. You
> might as well get a Minolta or a Canon.
>
> Jody.
>
> --- Pel_Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Bruce wrote:
> >
> > >You mentioned you would like a modern LX. What
> > > does that mean? AF, spot meter? Please describe.
> >
> >
> > It means AF and spot metering for sure. Otherwise it
> > means keeping as much of essence of the LX as
> > posible. What this really means in reality is
> > something I would know when I see it. The fact
> > remains that camera engineers is better than most of
> > us of seeing deep into a camera. They may come up
> > with brilliant things we now have no concept of or
> > didn't think of.
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