On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > David Savage wrote: > > >>Also you wouldn't have to contend with their stupid proprietary flash >>hot shoe :-) > > That's the biggest drawback. But it does have a PC socket and I have > an AF 240 :-) >
The flash shoe is the one thing Minolta got right 22 years ago and no other maker else has clued in on. A flash shoe with no exposed contacts, a simple pushbutton lock system that doesn't fail, jam or vary between manufacturers and which is mechanically secure beats the current cruft-addled 1920's era viewfinder shoe that everybody else is using. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
