I think you are going to be wrong in that in some cases the Body IS that minolta has is going to be better than the nothing that Pentax/Canon/Nikon has. don't forget, it is only an option and I suspect it can be turned off to make it similar to non-IS body. JCO
-----Original Message----- From: Graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Minolta Maxxum wth BODY IS The thing here is no one who is saying the Minolta system is better has ever used one. Why not wait to make these determinations from experience rather than guess work. Lot's of seemingly great ideas turned out to be not so great in practice. -- J. C. O'Connell wrote: > The $64,000 question is do you want or need a smaller > body more than you want or need a BODY integrated > IS system? If the answer isnt clear than the MFGRs > could offer different models with and without the feature. > > > JCO > > -----Original Message----- > From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Minolta Maxxum wth BODY IS > > > they don't. take a look at the room around for the AF system. putting > in what Minolta did will make the bodies much larger. > > Herb... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:06 PM > Subject: RE: Minolta Maxxum wth BODY IS > > > >>pentax doesn't have IS system in body or lenses do they? > > > > -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html

