On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:56:28 +1100, David Nelson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just found this patent issued (to Pentax Corp) about a month ago (filed
> early 2002) - called "Interchangeable lens with angular velocity sensors".
>
> http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=GB2403021&F=0
>
> Gee that stuff's hard to read... but it seems to deal mainly with
> body-lens communication and control. So do the IS/VR of canon/nikon have
> the sensors in the lenses or the body? Anything interesting in that
> patent? (other than the fact that pentax is working on lens-based image
> stabilisation ("imageshake compensation")?)
>
> BTW - I've been away for the best part of a couple of months - have I
> missed any news/rumours?
>
Hi, David,
I don't pay much attention to these things (patents and, generally,
new technology ), but I seem to recall that Pentax has all sort of
patents issued that they don't do anything with. So, I wonder how
excited we should get about this.
As for your last question, the answer is: No. You've missed nothing.
Cotty and I are having a bit of a tiff, but I don't know why. It's
his fault, he started it, and I don't know what it's about because he
won't tell me.
In other words, same old, same old...
Nice to see ya back. Any magnificent bug shots for us?
cheers,
frank
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"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson