Except that on the PZ-1p the aperture ring was fully supported too.
John Francis wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:37:21PM -0400, gfen wrote:
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>>But I don't want to accept that its not smart enough to replicate a
>>feature thats been on every one of the camera bodies since the mid '70s,
>>including the MZ-S from which I think all the rest of this descends.
>>
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>
>You're not alone in this - there are still a few die-hards here who
>say they'll refuse to buy the K10D if it doesn't re-introduce the
>aperture sensing mechanism (omitted from all the digital bodies).
>Personally I think they're flogging a dead horse - most of the new
>lenses don't even have aperture rings, so it's unlikely that Pentax
>will bother with adding something they've already decided to drop.
>
>You're mistaken in your belief that the digital bodies are is some
>way descendants of the MZ-S. The proposed MZ-D (with a full frame
>sensor) never made it to market. If it had, then we may well have
>seen aperture rings on the lenses, and aperture being set that way
>as it is on the MZ bodies. But, instead, we got cameras with the
>control interface of the PZ bodies, where the lens is left set to
>the "A" setting, and everything is controlled by the finger/thumb
>control wheels on the body. My *ist-D is, operationally, almost
>identical to my PZ-1p.
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