On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not all innovation is good, either. Pentax led in power-zoom, and those > damn shutter speed buttons on the ME super and Super Program (which might > have made the cameras cheaper to make, but I found them harder to use).
Ah, them! The best bit about the ME Super you mean. The ones that let you change shutter speed without taking your eye off the viewfinder and without fiddling with small, inaccessible, round dials. Aren't similar interfaces the way we do things today, with the *ist-d? The MZ-50 has something similar (even combining the aperture setting with A-lenses) and it rocks. > At the bottom, higher N and C prices are probably because of the name > because the build quality is lousy, although Canon puts internal motors in > all of its lenses and Nikon is starting to. That adds value. <Real Question> Why? I would guess it adds weight. What else does an internal motor offer? </Real Question> Kostas
