What does the age have to do with it? THE AGE ARGUMENT IS TOTALLY BOGUS AND STUPID. Either the K/M lenses are high quality lenses capable of a wide variety of photograhic uses or they arent. YOU CANT ARGUE that they arent important ONLY because they are 15-30 years old.
You guys cant recognize the SENSELESS stupidity of disabling features from millions of good products in the field that would make the A NEW PRODUCT BETTER if it didn't? In fact, since DIGITAL is more exposure sensitive than film is, the AE feature is NEEDED MORE with a DSLR than it was with film so the removal of the AE is not only not good, its worse than not good, its BAD for KM lenses. I made this suppostion before, I think pentax might have realized they cant make new lenses any better so they could be just FORCING the K/M lenses to be worse to make the new ones SEEM better. Making new products that ACTUALLY ARE signifigantly better than old ones is ethical, intentionally disabling old ones that don't need to be disabled just to help sell new ones isnt.... jco -----Original Message----- From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You need an irony checker. Bill, this whole thread is about someone wanting to use 30-year-old manual-focus lenses and yet wanting more automation/assistance (hand-holding) from the camera electronics. If you used an irony checker here the damn thing would burst into flames the moment you turned it on! -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
