On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 08:44:09AM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: > >On Dec 12, 2011, at 12:40 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > > > >>On Dec 11, 2011, at 10:24 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > >> > >>>I take it that it's specially designed for the MZ-D, (or K-1 as > >>>it was rebranded by Pentax marketing in Japan or maybe somebody > >>>else). > >> > >>What I don't understand is why the optical stabilization would not > >>work with film DSLRs. > > > >Bah! SLRs, not DSLRs. I hate it when my fingers are two seconds > >faster than my brain. > > > > Film SLRs don't have power contacts for the OS or HSM.
Except for those that do - those power contacts came in with the PZ series bodies. The bodies don't supply the commands for HSM, but they could at least supply power for in-lens stabilization. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
