> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:53:55 +0100 > From: Frantisek Vlcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: New Manual, All Mechanical, Retro-Rangefinder > > RM> The Cosina/Voigtl�nder lenses are all manual focusing with no internal >electronics. > RM> The Cosina/Voigtl�nder bodies uses existing and old technology. Nothing is new >there. > RM> That's why it cost so little. They don't have to pay the R&D department. > > Ugh? Just tell me what did they copy with the 12mm and 15mm lenses... > they are completely new designs.
If you read my posting a little more carefully, I'm sure that you will find that I said that the bodies uses existing and old technology. I didn't said that about the lenses, about the lenses - I only wrote that they are manual focusing with no internal electronics. It cost more money to develop and produce an autofocus lens with lots of internal electronics, than a manual focusing lens with no electronics of whatsoever. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: hmmmmmmmmmmmm > > For newspapers yes digital is excellent as your dpi is not as high as that used in >the > glossy magazine industry but when your dealing with glossy magazines who print at a > minimum 300 dpi there is no match when you decide to use a digital image instead of > the super colored slide. Heard of digital backs to medium-format cameras? Seems quite popular among ad and fashion photographers... > soon we will have mz1 - 2 -3 -4-5-6-7-8-9-10-20-30-40-50-60-70-80-90-100 etc > > Why have so many mz series cameras has got me stumped. Its like having a software > product with version 1, 1.1, 1.2 etc Well, Canon has the EOS, Minolta has the Dynax and Nikon has the F. Pentax has the MZ. > From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l?= Audun Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Pentax as a connoisseur camera (WAS: PMA News) > > Pentax seems to lack any long term commitments > and seems to think that the customer will automatically come to the product. If Pentax "lack any long term commitments", then I wonder why backwards compatibility is so important for them. And if Canon had such a "long term commitment", one can wonder why they abandoned their manual focus mount, so that loyal Canon users were forced to buy new cameras and new lenses. Nikon does no longer support mechanical aperture coupling (so some old autofocus bodies can't use the new AF-G lenses in manual exposure mode nor in aperture-priority). The new Pentax MZ-6 still does. If this isn't "long term commitment", then I don't know what the term "long term commitment" means. I'm sure that if Pentax abandoned the K-mount in the 80's instead of inventing the KAF, then their AF bodies and lenses would be more widely spread today. Now it's too late to abandon the K-mount. Best regards, Roland - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
