> From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> > Panasonic has done exactly the same thing with their DSLRs and > Micro-FourThirds cameras. Attempting to protect the naive customer, I > guess. > > Olympus doesn't do it at all. Fit an adapted manual lens and the > camera just makes an exposure. > > On Pentax and Panasonic cameras, I enabled the ability to use "no > lens" as soon as I got the camera (that's effectively what this means) > and left it that way, never looked at it again. >
Score one for Olympus! As far as I'm concerned someone's just not thinking... (of course had I been thinking straight whilst juggling 5 balls I'd have figured it out before writing), and now the setting is forever set. Something is wrong with a UI that will PERMIT one to fire the shutter by default with no card in the camera, and yet will PROHIBIT by default the use of numerous lenses the camera supports. Which is worse? Allowing the shutter to fire with no way to record the image or not allowing the shutter to fire when there's reduced lens compatibility? If the camera can fire the shutter and issue a warning with no card in the camera, then it would logically follow that it could, by default, allow non-A mode shooting and issue a 2 second warning when the lens is first detected that 'Not all camera functionality is available when using this lens'. Blah, blah, blah... Tom C. -- 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.
