The film *ist, MZ-60 and MZ-50 all share the same 'crippled' KAF mount
as the DSLR's. The MZ-60 won't even release the shutter with K/M lenses
attached. Neither the *ist or MZ-50 offer any more compatibility with
K/M lenses than the *ist D did before the Green Button firmware was
released (1.10), whihc means that the only usable shooting mode on them
with K/M lenses is Av mode with the lens wide open. They're
significantly more crippled with these lenses than Digital bodies are.
Considering that 50% or more of the current line of Pentax SLR's are
crippled this way (Different Pentax sites differ on whether the MZ-6 is
a current product, and it's the only AF SLR in the line without a
crippled mount, the MZ-M is the only model I can verify is both current
and includes an uncrippled mount) I'd be complaining much more about the
film bodies athn the digital, especially when the digitals offer a
slightly inconvenient workaround to the film bodies lack of workaround.
As to the 'cheap pot and a single A/D channel', well that's a heck of a
lot more expensive than the single electrical contact and data channel
that's already being used for other stuff. And there's a fair bit of
precision necessary, so it's an expensive pot and calibrated spring, not
a cheap one.
-Adam
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
See my last post, your entire second paragraph is
WRONG because these are NOT expensive mechanical
couplings ( even bottom line cameras like K1000/P3
has it) it's a super simple dirt cheap pot, spring, and
and a single A/D channel. you know what that
costs nowadays? Virtually nothing compared to the many
other extremely complex and expensive parts and engineering in the DSLR. I
am not
saying it wouldn't add ANY cost to the body
but there is something called "VALUE ADDED TO CUSTOMER"
in engineering and production. The VALUE ADDED TO CUSTOMER
to the body by incorporating this virtually
no cost item is HUGE compared to the TINY TINY cost of
adding it and it should be done ON AT LEAST ONE
OF THE DSLR BODIES in my opinion.
Secondly, your last comment makes no sense to me because
the film bodies with AE don't need a green button,
with AE and AE lock you already have something
better than green button because its like the green
button is being continously done for you all the
time so why would you want that on those bodies?
JCO
