From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 4 Mar 2004 at 9:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The LX was, unfortunately, unique for Pentax. It was pretty much unique > entirely with that electro-mechanical shutter and moronic strap/grip system. >I suspect the LX's "moronic" grip/strap system to which you refer was >modelled >upon that found on the P67 and all subsequent models of it and the 645 >variants. That would explain it, at least. I still don't like it. Now that my LX no longer has the grip or motor drive on it I find it handles just fine with regard to the strap. It is in fact a much happier camera when it is not being asked to do the things that the Nikon F3 was designed to do. I don't recall the 645 handing from my shoulder sideways when I used one in college. I can't see WANTING to hang the 67 off my body like a 35. It occurred to me when I was thinking of buying a used LX that if it didn't come with a strap I don't know WHERE I'd get one. I bought a KX instead, mostly because it hurt the pocketbook less. DJE
