Actually the XKE first went on sale in1961, so I'm guessing it's intro was preceded by at least 2 to 3 years for design and development.
Ken Waller -----Original Message----- From: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Sent: Sep 29, 2021 5:37 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: GESO British car show > On Sep 29, 2021, at 12:09 PM, Ken Waller wrote: > > Amazing, what almost 60 years of engineering progress can produce. Probably closer to 50, but yes. The Mazda Mx5/Miata/Eunos is considered a rather slow car in performance circles, but if you look at the specifications, it’s not that far off from a V-8 powered Sunbeam Tiger. A lot of the legendary performance cars would be “fair to middlin” by today’s standards. In photography where performance doesn’t matter except for when it does, the things today’s cameras can do are mind boggling compared to the film era. I’ve taken shots at upwards of ISO 10,000 that have less noise than Tri-X had grain. Very few of my astro-landscape photos would have even been possible not that long ago. I didn’t really have the budget for lenses until fairly recently, but I suspect that what we consider “OK performance” in a modern lens would have blown people out of the water not that many decades ago. -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
