----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: istDs - what a great camera!
> Slowing down the exposure process is luxury? > Reducing the metering range is a luxury? > If you want to think, go manual. AE is > about speed and the green button is > not fast as true AE. Open aperure metered > manual would be better than the green > button mode if you want to slow down and think > and don't need the speed of true AE. Glad to see some things never change. This horse is not only dead, it's corpse is laying feet up in the pasture with it's bones picked half clean. And still we beat it. Has anyone actually got any hard factual technical information about development and manufacture costs, as well as technical data regarding issues revolving around including the aperture estimator and it's related bits? Perhaps an in company published cost/ benefit analysis? Or are we still just pissing random numbers and bleating? Since buying the istD I have bought 4 new lenses. Good for Pentax, I guess. OTOH, buying some new glass every 30 years or so isn't such a big deal. The green button fix for pre-A operation isn't a big deal either, though it is certainly not as nice as the auto operation on an LX (as an example). OTOH, the auto operation on the LX is fraught with it's own set of perils........ William Robb
