Secondly this is totally different than the K/M lenses ( millions of them remember) situation we have been discussing at length because IMAGE STABIZATION was never intended with K/M lenses so it's a NEW BONUS FEATURE you can use or not use if you want to and any "work" like entering a focal length when mounting the lens isnt something you can really complain about. With the K/M AE loss you not only have to do work you didn't have to do before to get some function, you don't even get the original function just metered manual in stop down mode. And to further make this distinction, the K/M lens support is dirt CHEAP essentially free cost whereas IS in a body cant be anywhere near as cheap to implement.. JCO
-----Original Message----- From: P. J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) Everyone seems to think that would be difficult. Hows this for an action. It's easy enough to sense a K lens the body. So have a function button, (such as the AF button on the *ist D), that's useless using K/M lenses change function. Press that button and use one of the wheel controls to dial in the focal length. Fairly straight forward. It probably doesn't have to be more accurate than within 10% of the actual focal length. With practice it could be become an automatic thing to do every time you mount a K/M lens. Sure you'd have more problems with zooms but you don't have to use IS, and <ironic voice=on>as someone pointed out there weren't that many Zooms in that range...<ironic voice-off> Mark Roberts wrote: >"P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Even K and M lenses could be made to work with in camera IS. >> >> > >I suppose, if there were some means of manually entering the lens' >focal length into the camera. Sounds even more cumbersome than pushing >a green button so I doubt it'd go over well... > > > > -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout).
