I'd go along with any of those things, really. I'm kind of ignorant of the tech stuff that goes on behind the lens and in the soft/firm ware. However, I always thought the sensor captured stuff in B&W and the converted it to color. I was saying to Bruce the other night that if the camera software got rid of a lot of these silly things, there'd be more room for more serious functions and features. On the DS I've only used AV, TV, and Manual. Of course, the littele pics that are on the DS are not on the D, so it's not as though Pentax hasn't offered a more "serious" camera, although, iirc, there's some silly and useless stuff in the K10D. Well, I suppose it's needed to sell cameras.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > I have to agree with Paul on this one, Shel. > > Monochrome is a rendering process when the sensor is capable of color > capture. It's only in the case where you have a limited sensor that > only records intensity information based on a spectral sensitivity > built into the sensor ... aka B&W film ... that it is anything else. > > Instead of dumb features like Face Recognition and nonsensical things > like "slimming filters", I'd like to more and better focusing screen > options, multipoint manual metering ala the Olympus OM-4, an > expansion of the highlight saturation blinkies to indicate over and > underexposure areas spatially rather than in a histogram display, a > camera with an interchangeable head for waist level and high > magnification finder options, and a compact, fast 28mm lens ... ;-) > > A set of extension tubes that supported the KA mount's electronic > contacts would also be good. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
