And, I'm sure, for a significantly cheaper price than a camera that will only appeal to a tiny fraction of the market for a regular DSLR.
Less may or may not be more, but it's certainly going to cost more. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:51:17PM -0500, PN Stenquist wrote: > But you can do that with a current DSLR. Just put it in manual focus and > manual exposure modes and turn off the review. I sometimes work that way. > > I cut my photographic teeth 35 years ago with all manual equipment. Im > not particular nostalgic about those times, and I don't gush about old > manual equipment. But I do enjoy working that way once in a while. No > special camera needed. It's all there in any of the Pentax DSLRs. > Paul > On Nov 19, 2008, at 2:21 PM, drew wrote: > >> Scott Loveless wrote: >>> On 11/19/08, drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Shame really, I would love a simple match needle or LED DSLR... no >>>> screen, >>>> no "modes", just the basics. Set your film speed, W/B, aperture >>>> and shutter >>>> speed. Personally I wouldn't want a built in flash, I never had a >>>> problem >>>> using an accessory flash with the little look up chart on the back >>>> ;-) >>> Retro-digital? >> >> Yup, a Zenit 12XP or Spotmatic with a digital sensor instead of >> film....no chimping, no fiddling around with menus to find some >> obscure setting that in reality makes no difference to the end result, >> no modes to shoot pictures of protons colliding in a particle >> accelerator, no frown and facial recognition, nothing... just the skill >> of the user to make a picture... :-) >> >> Drew. >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
