Why is this punishment? - I am just stating my position on K/M I.S. I would welcome it greatly even if a few button pushes were NEEDED and it sounds like that they really are to implement it. jco
-----Original Message----- From: P. J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) I'm coming to the conclusion that no good dead goes un-punished. J. C. O'Connell wrote: >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).
