Who needs them? I shoot in aperature priority with
the Super. Almost always.
Steve Desjardins wrote:
Agreed. the buttons are the one thing I hate about my 645.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/02/04 07:31AM
and those damn shutter speed buttons on the ME super and Super
Program (which might have made
Sure it existed back then. :-) My first camera, XR-P, with a large shutter
speed dial which can be turned with the thumb easily. Really great design
camera, better than any Pentax manual focus cameras, but suffered from poor
materials. :-(
Regards,
Alan Chan
http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
A
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Malcolm Smith wrote:
reasons as you. It's also a physically smaller camera, which though ideal
for it's original purchase, doesn't suit me.
The ME Winder II helps a lot in this respect.
Kostas
Not to mention the AF noise scared some shy animals away. Don't laugh, it
happens. :-)
Regards,
Alan Chan
http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
The real reason, of course, is so the motor can be sized appropriately
for the job at hand. When you use a Pentax AF camera the same motor
has to be able to
on 03.02.04 10:50, Alan Chan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not to mention the AF noise scared some shy animals away. Don't laugh, it
happens. :-)
That's funny, beacuse for instance dogs (and some other animals too) are
very sensitive to ultrasounds inaudible to men. For them sounds from USM
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On what grounds? The Canon EOS-1D (even the old one) and Nikon D2h are
better CAMERAS than ANY film SLR made by ANY manufacturer in most
if not all respects.
OK, here's a lsit of what's wrong with them.
1 too big
2 too heavy
3 dependant on batteries
4 ISO
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not all innovation is good, either. Pentax led in power-zoom, and those
damn shutter speed buttons on the ME super and Super Program (which might
have made the cameras cheaper to make, but I found them harder to use).
Ah, them! The best bit about
Agreed. the buttons are the one thing I hate about my 645.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/02/04 07:31AM
and those damn shutter speed buttons on the ME super and Super
Program (which might have made the cameras cheaper to make, but I
found them harder to use).
Ah, them! The best bit about the ME
On 2/2/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
and those damn shutter speed buttons on the ME super and Super
Program (which might have made the cameras cheaper to make, but I
found them harder to use).
Ah, them! The best bit about the ME Super you mean. The ones that
let you change shutter speed
Desjardins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: pentax as an innovator, and quality
Agreed. the buttons are the one thing I hate about my 645.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/02/04 07:31AM
and those damn shutter speed buttons on the ME super and Super
At the bottom, higher N and C prices are probably because of the name
because the build quality is lousy, although Canon puts internal motors in
all of its lenses and Nikon is starting to. That adds value.
Real Question
Why? I would guess it adds weight. What else does an internal
John wrote:
How long did it take for Pentax to introduce a real auto-focus camera?
Uh? They released the first AF 35mm slr.
It might not been real but the first real Pentax AF slr was
introduced at the same time as Canon introduced their first real AF
system.
The SF-1 worked as well
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