On Mar 7, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Gautam Sarup wrote:
On 3/7/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Be real. The fact is that this is the way all the modern cameras, new
Panasonic L1 excepted, are being designed. If you don't like it,
you're out of luck because you won't be able to buy anything in the
future that works the way you like.
Why are lenses being designed without aperture rings anyway?
Cost?
Since all the new DSLR bodies control the lens aperture anyway, the
only use for an aperture ring on a DA lens is to waste money. I'd
much rather see them put that money into the QuickShift focusing
feature and other lens mount improvements.
And no, there are no D-FA lenses on the roadmap that I can see.
Pentax has released lenses on the timeline set on the last roadmap
pretty closely, and nothing that wasn't on there surfaced, so I would
not expect to see anything but DA lenses in the coming two years for
the K-mount bodies.
Godfrey
