On 29/01/07, George Sinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just tagging onto the thread here to toss in my two cents. > > I guess this is one of those things that is a pretty simple decision > for me. Even if I had a bag full of expensive IS lenses I'd want to > have SR in the body for all of those plain old every day lenses. > > If I have SR in the body it works with every regular lens. I can turn > it off if I want to mount an expensive super-duper tuned IS lens. > > The two can co-exist. > > This is purely a marketing problem. If you put it in the body, it > will be very difficult to sell lenses that have the feature.
Absolutely, both systems have their advantages and limitations. But the first of the big two to wrestle the appropriate patents from the little guys and implement both systems (and cleverly market the advantages of both) will be the winner. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
