In a message dated 12/1/2005 2:12:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Even if Pentax got 100% of the geek market, would that be significant? We see post after post here bemoaning the fact that cameras are being dumbed down to appeal to the masses - it seems unlikely that those masses are found amongst the geek community. ====== However, word can get around to non geeks. The Canon 300D was basically the Canon 10D (same firmware) but with some software disabled. A rather famous Russian geek hacked the 300D firmware to do most of what the 10D does (some wasn't possible because the hardware didn't support it, but an amazing amount did). And tons and tons and tons and tons of 300D users hacked their firmware (for things like MLU). Since one can download the original firmware, it's a pretty trivial matter to restore it if the camera needs to go in for servicing. Hey, there are whole popular Canon web pages on this stuff.
So, yeah, I think it would be neat if Pentax made the *istD hackable (open source). Non geeks do find out. Marnie aka Doe
