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From: "Skip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Maybe there would be a market
> for customizing chips to add to cameras, so if you need time lapse
> ability, you can buy that specific chip and have it added to the body,
> or spot metering, or different speed winders. After all, if you want
> leather seats in your car, you have that option, or more power, or
> limited slip diffs, stuff like that. Something to ponder.
Minolta had a system with chips for adding extra features to the bodys some
time ago, but I don't think this worked very well. When it comes to
different speed winders, well, we have boosters for the pro cameras, and I
think a camera in the level of EOS 30 with several choices of winders would
be more exepensive even with the slowest option installed since the
exchangable motor-part would require a more complicated construction. All in
all, a modular body as you suggest would be more expensive to build, IMO.
When I got the EOS 3 some people asked me why I bought a so advanced
camera, and told me that I wouldn't use all its features. They were right, I
don't use all the features, but on the other hand there was no camera that
offered just the selection of features I wanted, and I'm very happy with my
purchase.
Some points on the 3 Old-discussion. I don't think the EOS 3 is old, at
least not when compared to other than the 1v. The only thing I miss on it is
the joypad-style AF-point selector found on the EOS 30. The EOS 5 was
marketed late in -92, and I guess it was the EOS 3 of it's time, a camera
marketed to see how several new technologies would make it outside the R&D
lab. I can't see why the 3 wuoldn't be in the lineup for att least two or
three more years.
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