Adam Maas wrote: > Pentax badly needs a competitive budget camera, every other maker has > a better option right now (either less money or more features & > performance AND less money).
What *someone* needs to make is a real student camera, along the lines of the K1000: Manual everything (*Especially* ISO selection!) The problem is that so many features are implemented in software now that it's difficult for anyone to justify removing the extra automation. I wouldn't be surprised if economies of scale make producing a manual focus body more expensive than an autofocus one, just because the MF would sell in such small numbers, though I suppose you could cripple the AF in the firmware. The only hope is that there are enough high schools and colleges that would buy such a camera to make it a viable business proposition. Not very likely, IMO, but we can hope ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
