On Aug 5, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Right on, brother! One of the people I tutor in photography would > certainly benefit from this, and I expect this isn't an isolated case. > > If some manufacturer made a DSLR that a real digital equivalent of the > K1000 (manual focus, manual exposure), I expect they'd be able to sell > them to lots of colleges and other places that teach photography > courses. I don't expect it to happen, because I don't think this > market > alone would be big enough to support the product. And I can't envision > any other buyers for it because most of the "manualness" would have to > be implemented through software (in order to avoid designing an > entirely new camera from scratch), so it wouldn't cost significantly > less than an equivalent camera with many more bells and whistles. > > Nice idea, but I don't see it happening... :(
I suggested some time ago that a custom function be added to some DSLR cameras that would turn off all of the auto exposure modes leaving you with a manual camera. Instructors could enable this function on all student cameras and leave it turned on until the course was over. EXIF data would reveal any cheaters. None of the camera companies I talked to said it would be difficult to do, but were doubtful of enough demand to justify offering this feature. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
