Toralf Lund wrote: >>That is the way a camera should work. > > A reasonable amount of people seem to agree with this, but apparently > Cosina is the only company these days that think they can turn this > feeling into camera sales... Oh, and Leica, I guess, but as others have > pointed out, it may look like they have given up surviving on users > alone, and try to appeal just as much to collectors. I'm wondering if > the M8 will be the digital camera I've been missing, though, i.e. one > whose designers didn't think they had to include all sorts of > unnecessary automation and zillions of customisations and menu > selections just because it's digital. But it probably will be too > expensive anyway... > > There are of course a couple of other companies that still market > all-mechanical bodies, but it seems like they are all manufactured (and > partly designed) by Cosina. Or does anyone know an exception? > > Pentax should re-introduce the MX... > > - Toralf > >
There's also a Chinese company that got the K1000 tooling, they build a number of cheap K1000 clones in various mounts(including a C/Y mount version sold by Braun). Crap QC and mostly plastic stuff though. Nikon was the last major manufacturer to make a mechanical SLR, the FM3a, and even then, the excellent 45mm f2.8P pancake lens that was the kit for it was made by ... Cosina. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
