If they come out with an KAF III and it's not really the KAF II that's said to be in the MZ-S, I'll be royally pissed. Just got the thing this summer and I'm a student. Whatever (if there is one) Pentax comes up with, it had better be fully compatible with the MZ-S.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:45 PM Subject: Re: Has the MZ-S already a new mount? > >Well, the MZ-S makes a noise when shaking it. It sounds like a small metal > >ball that moves when shaking the camera. It's located somewhere in the > >prism according to my ears. Interestingly, according to the Pentax Image > >stabilization patent, the camera, not the lenses, have vibration sensors. > >Could this be what makes a noise when shaking the camera? Most likely it's > >something entirely different, though; maybe its just a sensor for > >determining whether the camera is held vertically of horizontally used for > >metering. > >I believe my former MZ-S also had the same "noise". > > http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p= 1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20020118963'.PGNR.&OS=DN/200 20118963&RS=DN/20020118963 > > http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p= 1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20020114623'.PGNR.&OS=DN/200 20114623&RS=DN/20020114623 > > There are mention of "KAF III". Could this be the new mount based on KAF2? > > regards, > Alan Chan > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com >
