**IF** the minolta scheme ends up working as good for DSLRs as putting the IS in the lenses, Canon/Nikon/Pentax will have no choice but to put it in their DSLRs too to keep up. Its far more cost effective to have one system in the body instead of a IS system in every lens....Minota would kill them on the price of the lenses because theirs wouldn't need the IS systems in the lenses. If that happened and only film bodies needed IS in lenses, IS lenses would go extinct because camera MFGRs are not going to sell products good only for film cameras anymore..
JCO -----Original Message----- From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 8:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Minolta Maxxum wth BODY IS is a manufacturer then going to put out two different high end lens lines that differ only by their IS capabilty? i think not. Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 8:38 PM Subject: RE: Minolta Maxxum wth BODY IS > Just because you need IS in lenses for the film bodies doesn't mean > there is no value in putting it in the DSLR bodies too because in the > DSLR every lens becomes IS not just a few special and expensive > models.
