Re: News from PMA - MZ-S and other stuff

[dave o'brien]

A scroll of mail from "Alan Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 11 Feb
2001 17:30:42 -0800
Read it? y
>I was thinking, is it possible to turn their power-zoom (the extra 2 pins) 
>power into USM power source. If so, they might just forget the power-zoom 
>feature and employ USM technolgy without phyical modification to the camera 
>mount.

Wouldn't you get strange results is you put a power zoom lens on a USM
camera or vice versa?  I suppose you could add features to identify
the various lens types, but you'd probably have to sacrifice
compatibility at some point, and Pentax are famous for not doing that.

dave
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