Hmmm....reminds me of the call I got two days ago who has had her DS for a year. She just purchased a Tamron 90/2.8 macro lens. It arrived and she put it on the camera ready to shoot something. The call comes to me - "Help, my camera doesn't work. It is flashing '--' and won't fire. I asked her to put the lens on the A setting and suddenly it worked! She could have ended up sending it in for repair had she not asked me.
-- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, March 8, 2006, 5:35:15 AM, you wrote: MR> 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? MR> Yes, but not just parts cost: in the past several years a huge number MR> of cameras have come in to repair departments from casual users (who MR> represent the vast majority of buyers) who just took the lens off the MR> "A" setting and didn't know why things weren't working any more. I MR> have seen it first hand when I worked at the photo shop. MR> The problem, from a service standpoint, has been exacerbated in the MR> last few years since cameras started getting sold at MR> non-photo-specialist stores. Generally, repair/replacement is handled MR> at a common "Customer Service Desk" so the customer never gets a MR> chance to have the problem explained by someone in the photo MR> department who knows cameras (and some of them would probably miss it MR> these days!) MR> Anyway, I have heard that this has been a major issue from Nikon and MR> Pentax service technicians. Not only does this increase costs for MR> everyone, it bogs down the repair queue and delays real repairs from MR> knowledgeable customers like all of us :)
