Bill,
Well, they just stopped making the LX. You can probably still find one new, if that's
what you want. I'm sure Peter would do his best to hook you up.
Sitting around whining that Pentax doesn't make a high quality, sparsely featured body
just doesn't hold water, because they did just that for the last twenty years, and
=nobody bought them for the last five years=. Now they've discontinued it, because
=nobody bought it.=
Oh, sure, Shel bought one, and I've seen a couple reports here on the list of people
who wanted to buy one, but not even Pentax is going to keep a twenty year old body in
production on the off chance that they might sell three or four a year.
Look at it this way. If you had an MZ-S, you could just use center-weighted metering
with it and ignore the other methods. Where is the spot meter on my LX?
I guess I must have unusually strong powers of concentration, because I have not yet
had a viewfinder keep me from getting a photo. (Oh, shit! It's Sasquatch! Oh, and I'm
distracted by the presence of an over/under graph. =Damn= this viewfinder!)
I just remembered my LX has a self-timer. I've never used it. By golly, that LX is an
over-featured tribute to the Gods of Marketing. No real photographer would ever use
such an abomination. I may have to sell mine. Since I know you and Shel use the
self-timer on every single photo you take with yours, perhaps you'd like to make me an
offer. I'm just kidding, of course; I'm keeping mine. I
Sorry, but the 35mm game is dominated by people who a.) actually buy new cameras and
b.) want more than what the LX offers. That this dominance is good or bad is
irrelevant; it just =is= and no amount of whining is going to change it, unless that
whining is accompanied by significant orders for brand new LX bodies. Define
significant as "any number large enough to cause Pentax to put the LX back into
production."
Doug
At 7:58 AM -06007/31/01, William Robb wrote, or at least typed:
>
>Can I jump in here for a moment?
>Thanks. I would like to be able to shoot with whatever I like.
>Here is what I would like.
>I would like a brand new camera that mounts Pentax K lenses, is
>very high quality but doesn't have features that I won't use.
>This keeps the interface simple, the viewfinder simple, and may
>even keep the price down a bit.
>Unfortunately, I can't shoot with whatever I like. I would have
>to buy an MZ-S.
>If I want to buy a new camera now, I have to shoot with what the
>manufacturer of the camera says that everyone should like.
>I don't like that.
>So don't you be saying that it's OK to shoot with whatever you
>like, when what you are really saying is that you have to shoot
>with something you don't like.
>Thanks for letting me rant.
>William Robb
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Douglas Forrest Brewer
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