Mike,
So the big deal is that Nikon is going to market as
"new" a type of shutter that the LX used for twenty
years?
Doug
Quoting Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Sadly, and somewhat ironically, it may be that only a
company that is doing
> well with its "computers with motors" that can afford
to produce a manual,
> metal throwback camera recalling the classic era of
the SLR (1959-1981,
> from
> the introduction of the Nikon F to the introduction of
the Canon A-1).
> Nikon
> has a large base of established professional and
semiprofesisonal users to
> keep happy, many of whom have not been particularly
sanguine about the
> demise of the FE2, which was notable to them mainly as
a backup body that
> had TTL metering and a high snyc speed. The FM3A, the
advent of which is
> indeed interesting, is more or less the introduction
of a new shutter--a
> remarkable one which works manually without batteries
but is electronically
> timed with batteries, allowing aperture-priority AE
*and* fail-safe manual
> operation. If technically the shutter (a much more
central mechanism of
> most
> cameras than most consumers think it is) is the point,
conceptually it is
> that the FM3A is essentially a combining of the FM2
and FE2. It could have
> been as much improved with a better viewfinder; the
one in the ongoing
> FE-FM-FM3A lineage is relatively sucky.
>
> The true "classic" throwback manual-mechanical metal
SLR recalling the best
> of the old days as interpreted by modern technology
has yet to be made. It
> may never be. I agree with Weiland that it should be.
It would be
> gratifying
> if Pentax would do it. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
>
> --Mike J.
>
Ashwood Lake Photography
http://www.alphoto.com
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